Palestinianism
Adam Shatz, 6 May 2021
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
by Timothy Brennan.
Bloomsbury, 437 pp., £20, March 2021,978 1 5266 1465 0 Show More
by Timothy Brennan.
Bloomsbury, 437 pp., £20, March 2021,
“... himself, well, that’s what immigrants did in the New World. The Egyptian literary theorist Ihab Hassan had shed his Arab identity when he moved to the US, and had never looked back.But something in Said rebelled against the concealment and silence that the loss of Palestine had imposed, and that his father, William ... ”