Out of Place
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (564 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670892386 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 387 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Those expecting an account of Said's subsequent intellectual development will be disappointed; apart from the final 50 pages, which deal with Said's education at Princeton and Harvard, Out of Place is, as Said himself says, primarily "a record of an essentially lost or forgotten world, my early life." It is this carefully disclosed record that accounts for Said's deeply ambivalent relationship with both his family and the Palestinian cause. Edward Said is one of the most celebrated cultural critics of the postwar world. The book offers a fascinating account of the personal development of a critic and thinker who has straddled the divide between East and West, and in the proce
Neu Hemenway said Brilliant perceptive poignant. I had never read Said and fell in love with him, and this book. His insights into the world of The Other -- a world I've inhabited basically forever -- are brilliant and poignant. Half-way through the book, I learned Said had died, which made me very sad, since I'd wanted to write to him.. AA said The real Edward ! An excellent book. This is a remarkable work of a truly fascinating man. Much of the memoir is dedicated to Edward Said's relationship with his mother and father. Said recounts the history of his father, a Palestinian, who went to America and possibly fought for it in the First World War. The father Wadie, later returned to Palestine and then moved on to Cairo to establish a great business success. The father comes across very typical Middle Eastern conservative authority figure with a rather peculiar but very strong American patriotism.Said's mother, comes across as a truly f. "Out of Place: A Memoir" according to Jack W. Ware. The writer reveals several intimate details of his life. Too many for me. His story is a reminder that many of us do not always fit in in the milieu of which we are a part. So it is helpful to know that even if we do not fit in we can live a useful life.
Edward Said was born in Jerusalem, and brought up in Cairo, spending every summer in the Lebanese mountain village of Dhour el Shweir, until he was "banished" to America in 1951. This work is a mixture of emotional archaeology and memory, exploring an essentially irrecoverable past. Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late forties and early fifties. As ill health sets him thinking about endings, Edward Said returns to his beginnings in this personal memoir of his ferociously demanding "Victorian" father, and his adored, inspiring, yet ambivalent mother.. This account of his early life reveals the influences that have formed his books, "Orientalism" and