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Edward W. Said

Out Of Place

A Memoir

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Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This account of his early life reveals how it influenced his books Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. Edward Said was born in Jerusalem and brought up in Cairo, spending every summer in the Lebanese mountain village of Dhour el Shweir, until he was 'banished' to America in 1951. This work is a mixture of emotional archaeology and memory, exploring an essentially irrecoverable past. As ill health sets him thinking about endings, Edward Said returns to his beginnings in this personal memoir of his ferociously dem… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84708-224-4
  • EAN: 9781847082244
  • Produktnummer: 35943824
  • Verlag: Granta Publications
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 0 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Edward Said (1935-2003) was one of the world's most influential literary and cultural critics. Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, he was the author of twenty-two books, including Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism and Beginnings. He was also a music critic, opera scholar, pianist and the most eloquent spokesman for the Palestinian cause in the West.

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