Palestinianism
Adam Shatz, 6 May 2021
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
by Timothy Brennan.
Bloomsbury, 437 pp., £20, March,978 1 5266 1465 0 Show More
by Timothy Brennan.
Bloomsbury, 437 pp., £20, March,
“... and first book were about Joseph Conrad’s explorations of ambiguity and double identities. As Timothy Brennan writes in Places of Mind, Said was ‘a photo negative of his Jewish counterparts’.Said spent his first years at Columbia as a kind of an Arab Marrano, or crypto Palestinian, among Jewish and Wasp colleagues who were either indifferent or ... ”