Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Edward W. Said
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Essays and literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Exile or expatriates, Literature, Palestinian Arabs, Literary criticism
The essays in this collection are arranged chronologically by date of publication. In the introduction to the book, Said identifies them as the result of thirty-five years of intellectual activity. The first essay, on the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, appeared in 1967. The next-to-last, on the author’s experience of living between the Arab and American worlds, was published in 1998. The last, a criticism of Samuel Huntington’s argument that future world history will be dominated by a clash between Western and non-Western civilizations, is the only work to appear for the...
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