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Edward Said
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Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political situation, this book examines Said's key ideas, including: the significance of worldliness, amateurism, secular criticism, affiliation and contrapuntal reading, the place of text and critic in the world, knowledge, power and the construction of the Other, links between culture and imperialism, exile, identity and the plight of Palestine, a new chapter looking at Said's later work and style.
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