Drawing on extensive archival sources and
hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's
Places of Mind is the first
comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellectuals
of the 20th century. In Brennan's masterful work, Said, the pioneer of
post-colonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine, and an
erudite literary critic, emerges as a self-doubting, tender, and eloquent
advocate of literature's dramatic effects on politics and civic life.
اضافة اعلان
Places of the Mind charts the intertwined
routes of Said's intellectual development, revealing him as a study in
opposites: a cajoler and strategist, a New York intellectual with a foot in
Beirut, an orchestra impresario in Weimar and Ramallah, a raconteur on national
television, a Palestinian negotiator at the State Department, and an actor in
films in which he played himself.
Brennan traces the Arab influences of
Said's thinking along with his tutelage under Lebanese statesmen, off-beat
modernist auteurs, and New York literati, as Said grew into a scholar whose
influential writings changed the face of university life forever.
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