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Title: Edward Said (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Bill Ashcroft, Pal Ahluwalia, D. P. S. Ahluwalia ISBN: 0-415-24778-0 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

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Comment: By far the best informed and most complete review of Edward Said and his thoughts that I have come across to date. Ashcroft and Ahluwalia take the time to explain all the background information that is absent in most introductory books.

This volume take great pains to explains Said's key concepts, ideas, contexts and impact. Both authors take the time to address reference to both his scholarship and journalism. The range of ideas include:
(1)the function and space of text and critic in "the world"
(2)Power/Knowledge
(3)the social construction of the "Other"
(4)the joins between culture and imperialism
(5)exile
(6)identity and
(7)Palestine.

It needs less explanation from me and more engagement from the reader to get the fullness of the experience. What is key is how well they have taken the time to explain through most of Said's interlocutors such as Dennis Porter, Aijiz Ahmad and Robert Young - to name a few. The key is to keep in mind the critique of Said and how fair and relevant they are. Said's use of Foucault is problematic and is discussed and certainly well explored in this book. Buy it, read it and digest it - then re read Orientalism.

Miguel Llora

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