Edward Said

Bill Ashcroft, Pal Ahluwalia9780415247771, 0415247772

This volume explains Said’s key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journalism. These ideas include: the place of text and critic in “the world,” knowledge, power, and the construction of the “Other,” the links between culture and imperialism, and exile, identity, and the plight of the Palestine.