Edward Said: Criticism and Society

Edward Said: Criticism and Society
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
352
ISBN
 
1859843905
Издатель
 
Random House Books for Young Readers
Категория
 
Социологи и психологи

Описание:

Book Description The only intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism , published on the first anniversary of Said?s death. Few public intellectuals have had such a big impact outside the academy as Edward Said, whose work has been the subject of much debate and discussion over the last two decades. From critiques of ideology mixed with philosophical reflections, to intellectual histories, literary criticism, and radical sociopolitical analysis he has single-handedly sustained a permanent insurrection against the status quo. This, the first full-length intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism, reveals some startling observations. Abdirahman Hussein argues that underneath Said?s carefully constructed eclecticism there is a global method in his work. His key text is not Orientalism but Beginnings, and the Palestinian experience informs all his texts, not simply those that deal explicitly...

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