Edward Said

Through his work as a scholar, as a critic, and as a political commentator, Edward Said asked insistently: Who speaks?

For what and whom? How does an intellectual articulate his or her place in the West? Or in the developing world? What is the specific contribution and intervention to be made by the intellectual?

This Social Text special issue in memory of Said examines how he challenged established authority and identity with these questions and shaped a culture of criticism.