Bøger af Edward W. Said

Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs.

Orientalisme er et centralt værk i de seneste årtiers opgør med Vestens traditionelle fremstilling af andre kulturer.Med udgangspunkt i en kronologisk og tematisk gennemgang af den akademiske og litterære fremstilling af Orienten og især den islamiske kultur, kortlægger Said forbindelsen mellem viden og magt fra Napoleons egyptiske felttog i 1798 til USA's mellemøstpolitik i dag.Said undersøger, hvordan idéen om Orienten kom til at dominere Vestens forhold til denne vidtstrakte og komplekse kulturelle og geografiske region og tilsløre 'vores' og 'deres' indbyrdes forbundethed.

This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal collision between two peoples in the Middle East and its repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied--as well as in the conscience of the West. He has updated this landmark work to portray the changed status of Palestine and its people in light of such developments as the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the intifada, the Gulf War, and the ongoing MIddle East peace initiative. For anyone interested in this region and its future, The Question of Palestine remains the most useful and authoritative account available.

experience, his book is a source of immeasurable intellectual delight.

A collection of essays.

Edward Said's classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism, which encompasses the great thinkers and writers of the last 200 years.

A compilation of 35 years' worth of critical essays from one of the boldest and most articulate cultural theorists of our time

All of the authors have written works on exile, home, and memory, using the written word as a tool for revisiting their old homes or fashioning new ones. This work includes five newly commissioned essays offering moving distallations of their most important thinking on these themes.

A profoundly moving and candid memoir about being a Palestinian in exile, from one of the most important writers and thinkers of the twentieth century.