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Title: Edward Said: The Paradox of Identity by Bill Ashcroft, Pal Ahluwalia, D. P. S. Ahluwalia ISBN: 0-415-19671-X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95

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Summary: Deconstructing Said
Comment: This book serves not only as a cogent introduction to the massive and complex body of work Said has produced in his lifetime, but it uses some of Said's own observations and critical mechanisms to understand Said. It contextualizes Said in a milieu that explains his own production of knowledge: something Said accomplished deftly in his landmark 'Orientalism' (1978). In that work, however, he examines the history of the western academic and popular cultural disposition towards "the Orient," or "the other" as an integral part of its imperial political aspirations. 'Paradox' gives an understandable syanpsis of a work many professors find difficult. Without giving away the fascinating hypothesis, Said's identity is explored amidst greater questions of the politics and meaning of identity -- themes Said is close to. This work is useful to those highly familiar with Said or those, such as myself, who seek a nice summary and introduction to the sphere of Said's work, ides that he influenced, as well as ideas he was influenced by. Its weakness is that it is probably of more utility to those belonging in the latter group of those un- or semi-familiar; though my own membership in that group may taint that judgment.