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Edward Said´s Concept of Exile: Identity and Cultural Migration in the Middle East
Rehnuma Sazzad
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Description for Edward Said´s Concept of Exile: Identity and Cultural Migration in the Middle East
Hardcover. Contributes to scholarship on Edward Said by providing a comprehensive account of his theory of exile Series: Written Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFFN; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Edward Said was an exiled individual - the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and the establishment of Israel through his parents' experiences and through the collective statelessness imposed on the Palestinians. His own personal experience of exile intensified when he moved to the USA. Yet despite the significance of exile to Said's life and work, no scholarship has yet focused on this theme in his writings or traced its ongoing applicability and importance. Rehnuma Sazzad fulfils this pressing need in literary and cultural research by providing the first ... Read more
Edward Said was an exiled individual - the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and the establishment of Israel through his parents' experiences and through the collective statelessness imposed on the Palestinians. His own personal experience of exile intensified when he moved to the USA. Yet despite the significance of exile to Said's life and work, no scholarship has yet focused on this theme in his writings or traced its ongoing applicability and importance. Rehnuma Sazzad fulfils this pressing need in literary and cultural research by providing the first ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Written Culture and Identity
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784536879
SKU
V9781784536879
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99-10
About Rehnuma Sazzad
Rehnuma Sazzad is Research Associate at the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her monograph Language and Nationalism in the Decolonized World is forthcoming and she has published various book chapters as well as articles in South Asian Cultural Studies, International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and ... Read more
Reviews for Edward Said´s Concept of Exile: Identity and Cultural Migration in the Middle East
An important contribution to the growing field on the history and criticism of Arab intellectual thought.' - Anastasia Valassopoulos, Senior Lecturer in World Literatures, University of Manchester, `A thoughtful study of the experience of exile among Arab intellectuals in the twentieth century.' - Robert J. C. Young, Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University