{"product_id":"reflections-on-exile-and-other-essays-paperback","title":"Reflections on Exile: And Other Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward W. Said\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the world's most beloved and respected public intellectuals comes a collection of essays examining culture, the literary canon, and the ever-shifting terrain of history \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is surely a major work, among the most provocative and cogent accounts of culture and the humanities that America has produced in recent years.\"―Martha C. Nussbaum, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. In this bracing collection of essays, one of the most beloved and respected public intellectuals of our time examines culture, the literary canon, and the ever-shifting terrain of history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSaid's topics are many and diverse, from the Hollywood heroics of Tarzan to the machismo of Ernest Hemingway to the shades of difference that divide Alexandria and Cairo. In the title essay, the widely admired \"Reflections on Exile,\" he weighs his own estrangement from his home country and the fate of the Palestinian people against the literary canon's most romanticized fugitives. \"What could be more intransigent than the conflict between Zionist Jews and Arab Palestinians?\" Said asks. \"Palestinians feel that they have been turned into exiles by the proverbial people of exile.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe culmination of thirty-five years of scholarship, \u003ci\u003eReflections on Exile and Other Essays \u003c\/i\u003eis an invigorating and life-affirming achievement, a work of intellectual, emotional, and moral rigor.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEDWARD W. SAID\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into thirty-five languages, including \u003ci\u003eOrientalism\u003c\/i\u003e (1978); \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e (1979); \u003ci\u003eCovering Islam\u003c\/i\u003e (1980); \u003ci\u003eThe World, the Text, and the Critic\u003c\/i\u003e (1983); \u003ci\u003eCulture and Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e (1993); \u003ci\u003ePeace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process\u003c\/i\u003e (1996); and \u003ci\u003eOut of Place: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e (1999). He died in 2003 in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.26 x 9.13 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978316874029,"sku":"9780593687918","price":25.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/r1HyRbQanu9780593687918.webp?v=1775801592","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/reflections-on-exile-and-other-essays-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}