The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source. The Selected Works includes key sections from all of Said's books, including his groundbreaking Orientalism; his memoir, Out of Place; and his last book, On Late Style. Whether writing of Zionism or Palestinian self-determination, Jane Austen or Yeats, or of music or the media, Said's uncompromising intelligence casts urgent light on every subject he undertakes. The Selected Works is a joy for the general reader and an indispensable resource for scholars in the many fields that his work has influenced and transformed.

Preface Mariam C. Said   Introduction Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin xix   Part I: Beginnings 1. The Claims of Individuality (1966)   2. The Palestinian Experience (1968–1969)   3. Molestation and Authority in Narrative Fiction (1971)   Part II: Orientalism and After 4. Orientalism (1978)      Introduction to Orientalism     The Scope of Orientalism   5. Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims (1979)   6. Islam as News (1980)   7. Traveling Theory (1982)   8. Secular Criticism (1983)   9. Permission to Narrate (1984)   10. Interiors (1986)   11. Yeats and Decolonization (1988)   12. Performance as an Extreme Occasion (1989)   13. Jane Austen and Empire (1990)   14. Intellectual Exile: Expatriates and Marginals (1993)   15. The Middle East “Peace Process”: Misleading Images and Brutal Actualities (1995)   Part III: Late Styles 16. On Lost Causes (1997)   17. On Writing a Memoir (1999)   18. The Clash of Definitions (2000)   19. The Virtuoso as Intellectual (2000)   20. Barenboim and the Wagner Taboo (2002)   21. Freud and the Non-European (2003)   22. Dignity and Solidarity (2003)   23. The Return to Philology (2004)   24. Timeliness and Lateness (2006)   Notes