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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Written culture and identity ; 6
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WCI (London, England) ; 6.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Author bio; Endorsement; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Exile and Intellectual Practice; Said and the executive view of exile; Saidâ#x80;#x99;s explorations of exile; 2 Middle Eastern Artists as Exilic Intellectuals; The reflection of Saidâ#x80;#x99;s ideas in contemporary Arab literature and film; The Arab artists and exilic intellectual practice; 3 Exile as Resistance; Resistance against supremacist ideologies; Resistance as an emancipatory project; 4 The Place of Writing in Exile |
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Adornian model: â#x80;#x98;Happy with the idea of unhappinessâ#x80;#x99;Auerbachian model: cultivating â#x80;#x98;the pleasures of exileâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;The last Jewish intellectualâ#x80;#x99;: Saidian legacy; 5 Exile in the Contexts of Postcolonialism and Postmodernism; Nationalism and voyage in: postcolonialism in perspective; Postmodernism and the exilic stance on established narratives; Contrapuntal rather than postcolonial or postmodern criticism; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Middle Eastern Artists as Exilic Intellectuals; 5 Exile in the Contexts of Postcolonialism and Postmodernism; Bibliography; Books |
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Journal, magazine and newspaper articlesWebsites; Audiovisual materials; Index |
| Summary |
"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 comprehensive definition of Said's theory of exile and revealing its legacy in relation to five Middle Eastern intellectuals: Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Leila Ahmed, Nawal El Saadawi and Youssef Chahine. Sazzad argues that for Said, the ideal intellectual is a metaphorical exile. This exile does not have to be spatially disconnected from a homeland, but must demonstrate a willing homelessness through specific strategies and techniques. By selecting a novelist, poet, feminist, filmmaker and essayist, Sazzad shows how intellectuals from diverse fields become part of the Saidian discourse through the expression of these 'exilic' qualities. The book creates a portrait of redoubtable intellectual practice and in the twenty-first century context, when the frontiers of belonging are constantly redrawn, Edward Said's Concept of Exile adds new depths to discourses of resistance, home and identity."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Said, Edward W. -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Said, Edward W. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Arabic literature -- History and criticism.
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Arabic literature. |
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Exile (Punishment) in literature.
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Exile (Punishment) in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Identity and cultural migration in the Middle East |
| ISBN |
9781786732606 (electronic book) |
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1786732602 (electronic book) |
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9781786722607 (ebook) |
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1786722607 (Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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9781786722607 (Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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1784536873 |
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9781784536879 |
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