McCarthy, Conor
(2007)
Edward Said and Irish Criticism.
Eire - Ireland, 42 (1&2).
pp. 311-335.
ISSN 0013-2683
Abstract
The work of Edward Said has been influential on a global scale, in
a manner that very few scholars can ever hope to match. It can
safely be asserted that no anti-imperialist writer since Frantz Fanon
has successfully addressed so many audiences. This essay traces the
response to Said’s work, including but not only his most famous
work, Orientalism, in Irish criticism and debates over the last three
decades.We will see, in the work of Said’s allies and emulators, and
that of his detractors, a number of variations, turns, adaptations,
and inflections on Said’s own books and essays. Surveying the
archive of responses to Said is valuable in itself, but it also provides
a barometer of Irish intellectual engagement with wider international
geo-political issues and historical shifts.
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