Edward Said: Criticism and Society

by Hussein, Abdirahman A.
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Few public intellectuals have had such a big impact outside the academy as Edward Said.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. Taking Beginnings as the key text Hussein asserts that the discontinuity of the Palestinian experience informs Said's entire oeuvre but simultaneously transcends it in a permanent search for a new synthesis. Hussein argues that this informs Said's approach not only to Conrad, Swift, and Eliot, but also to Luk cs, Williams, Gramsci and Adorno.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Hussein, Abdirahman A.
  • ISBN: 9781859843901
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.86 x 1.02
  • Number Of Pages: 339
  • Publication Year: 2004

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