Edward Said Paperback by Abdirahman A. Hussein

Product Details

• Publisher: Verso (2004-09-17)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 348 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781859843901
• Item Weight: 473.44 grams
• Dimensions: 22.43 x 14.94 x 1.91 cm

Few public intellectuals have had such a big impact outside the academy as Edward Said.This, the first full-length intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism, reveals some startling observations. Abdirahman Hussein argues that underneath Said’s carefully constructed eclecticism there is a global method in his work. Taking Beginnings as the key text Hussein asserts that the discontinuity of the Palestinian experience informs Said’s entire oeuvre but simultaneously transcends it in a permanent search for a new synthesis. Hussein argues that this informs Said’s approach not only to Conrad, Swift, and Eliot, but also to Lukács, Williams, Gramsci and Adorno.

About the Author

Abdirahman A. Hussein was born and educated in Somalia and currently teaches in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.