{"product_id":"the-politics-of-dispossession-isbn-9780679761457","title":"The Politics of Dispossession","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor of the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only Palestinians but also the Arab and Muslim worlds and their tortuous relations with the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Solidly imbued with historical context and geopolitical conjecture...fresh, unpredictable, personal and incorruptible writing.\"—\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Dispossession\u003c\/i\u003e, Said traces his people's struggle for statehood through twenty-five years of exile, from the PLO's bloody 1970 exile from Jordan through the debacle of the Gulf War and the ambiguous 1994 peace accord with Israel.\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAs frank as he is about his personal involvement in that struggle, Said is equally unsparing in his demolition of Arab icons and American shibboleths. Stylish, impassioned, and informed by a magisterial knowledge of history and literature, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Dispossession \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterly synthesis of scholarship and polemic that has the power to redefine the debate over the Middle East.\"The most eloquent and visible voice of the Palestinian struggle in America.... [Said's] combination of flamboyant style and erudite radicalism, honesty and advocacy... makes The Politics of Dispossession necessary and informative for anyone interested in the complexities of the Palestinian question.\" -- San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book should be read by anyone who wants to get beyond the shallow stereotypes that bedevil American thinking on the Middle East.\" -- Robert HughesEdward W. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into 35 languages, including \u003ci\u003eOrientalism\u003c\/i\u003e (1978); \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e (1979); \u003ci\u003eCovering Islam\u003c\/i\u003e (1980); \u003ci\u003eCulture and Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e (1993); \u003ci\u003ePeace and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e (1996); and \u003ci\u003eOut of Place: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e (1999). Besides his academic work, he wrote a twice-monthly column for \u003ci\u003eAl-Hayat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAl-Ahram\u003c\/i\u003e; was a regular contributor to newspapers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and was the music critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2003 in New York City.Author of Culture and Imperialism and The Question of Palestine","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302552883429,"sku":"NP9780679761457","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679761457.jpg?v=1767740997","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-politics-of-dispossession-isbn-9780679761457","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}