This insightful critical biography shows us an Edward Said we did not know. H. Aram Veeser brings forth not the Said of tabloid culture, or Said the remote philosopher, but the actual man, embedded in the politics of the Middle East but soaked in the values of the West and struggling to advance the
Edward Said
β Scribed by Bill Ashcroft, Pal Ahluwalia
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 176
- Series
- Routledge Critical Thinkers
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This volume explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journalism. These ideas include: the place of text and critic in "the world," knowledge, power, and the construction of the "Other," the links between culture and imperialism, and exile, identity, and the plight of the Palestine.
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Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers.Β Β For more than three decades his books, which include <b>Culture and Imperialism</b>, <b>Peace and Its Discontents</b>, and the semi