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As in the title essay, the widely admired “Reflections on Exile,” the fact of his own exile and the fate of the Palestinians have given both form and the force of intimacy to the questions Said has pursued.Reflections on Exile E xile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983, reconfirms what no one can doubt--that Said is the most impressive.
Reflections on Exile appeared in 2000, as well as The Edward Said Reader, and in 2001, Power, Politics, and Culture. We will focus here on his Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, published in 2000.REFLECTIONS ON EXILE And Other Essays. By Edward W. Said. 617 pp. Cambridge, Mass.:. -- Edward Said, in an interview, February 22, 1980. Featured Author: Edward W. Said. Said's work has long focused on formerly colonized people's struggles for justice and voice. And yet he is extremely critical of the politics of national identity even when.
REFLECTIONS ON EXILE and Other Literary and Cultural Essays EDWARD W. SAID Granta Books London. CONTENTS Introduction xi 1. Labyrinth of Incarnations: The Essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty i 2. Sense and Sensibility 15 On R. P. Blackmur, Georges Poulet, and E. D. Hirsch 3. Amateur of the Insoluble 24.
