TY - BOOK ID - 80839804 TI - Edward Said's concept of exile PY - 2017 SN - 9781786732606 1786732602 9781786722607 1786722607 9781786722607 1784536873 9781784536879 1350986194 PB - London DB - UniCat KW - Said, Edward W., KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Authors, Exiled, in literature. KW - Exiles in literature. KW - Said, Edward W. KW - Aiḍvarḍ Saʻīd KW - Saʻīd, Aiḍvarḍ KW - Saʻīd, Idwārd W. KW - Saidŭ KW - Sayide, Aidehua KW - סעיד, אדוארד KW - سعيد، إدوارد KW - سعيد، إدوارد و. KW - سعيد، ادورد KW - 薩依德艾德華 KW - Said, Edward Wadie KW - Said, Eduardo UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80839804 AB - "Edward Said was an exiled individual - the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and the establishment of Israel through his parents' experiences and through the collective statelessness imposed on the Palestinians. His own personal experience of exile intensified when he moved to the USA. Yet despite the significance of exile to Said's life and work, no scholarship has yet focused on this theme in his writings or traced its ongoing applicability and importance. Rehnuma Sazzad fulfils this pressing need in literary and cultural research by providing the first comprehensive definition of Said's theory of exile and revealing its legacy in relation to five Middle Eastern intellectuals: Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Leila Ahmed, Nawal El Saadawi and Youssef Chahine. Sazzad argues that for Said, the ideal intellectual is a metaphorical exile. This exile does not have to be spatially disconnected from a homeland, but must demonstrate a willing homelessness through specific strategies and techniques. By selecting a novelist, poet, feminist, filmmaker and essayist, Sazzad shows how intellectuals from diverse fields become part of the Saidian discourse through the expression of these 'exilic' qualities. The book creates a portrait of redoubtable intellectual practice and in the twenty-first century context, when the frontiers of belonging are constantly redrawn, Edward Said's Concept of Exile adds new depths to discourses of resistance, home and identity."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -