Edward Said: Criticism and Society (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781859843901)

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.

Author: Abdirahman A. Hussein
ISBN-10: 1859843905
ISBN-13: 9781859843901
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2004
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.86h x 5.68w x 1.02d