Reflections on Exile and Other Literary and Cultural Essays

Author: Edward W SaidPublisher: PenguinYear: 2001Language: EnglishPages: 617ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143027913 DescriptionThis book is a monument to the life of the intellect in the modern world. Most of the key debates in the humanities over the last thirty years are taken up in this book, and given definitive treatment, and confirm its author as one of the most important and elegant critics of our time.This long awaited collection brings together Edward Said's essays on literary and cultural topics from over three decades. As the title piece, Reflection on Exile, makes clear, the fact of Said own exile and the fate of the Palestinians have given both form and intimacy to the questions he has pursued. Taken together, these essays give a rare insight into the formation of a critic and the development of an intellectual vocation. They cover a wide and sometimes surprising range of topics - from the heroics of Tarzan and the machismo of Ernest Hemingway to the shades of difference th