Out of Place
Edward W. Said(Author)
Granta Books (Publisher)
Published on 5. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-84708-195-7 (ISBN)
Description
Born in 1935 to a half-Lebanese half-Palestinian mother and Palestinian father who had American citizenship, and raised in Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon, Edward Said (1935-2003) always lived with a divided identity. Out of Place is a beautiful, candid memoir which traces the author's growing sense of himself as an outsider: Arab but Christian, Palestinian but the holder of a US passport, having an improbably British first name yoked to an Arabic surname. It is a moving and honest account of exile and dislocation from an influential critic and thinker who straddled the divide between East and West, and in the process redefined Western perceptions of the East and of the plight of Palestinian people.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84708-195-7 (9781847081957)
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Person
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.