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Article: Reflections on Exile. (Featured Reviews).
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- World Literature Today
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- June 22, 2001
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Edward W. Said. Reflections on Exile Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 2000. xxxv + 617 pages. $35 ISBN 0-674-00302-0
ON COMPLETING A PERUSAL of Reflections on Exile, one is left with feelings of both gratitude and something akin to awe. Through forty-six separate essays that have previously appeared in a variety of publication venues, Edward Said shares with his readers a distillation of the important landmarks in his own reading of a truly vast library of humanistic writing and contextualizes it within the framework of the social and political debates that have characterized intellectual life in the latter half of the twentieth century into the ...