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The first full-length intellectual biography on Said. In it, Hussein argues that underneath Said's carefully constructed eclecticism is a global method—and that the Palestinian experience informs all his texts, not simply those that deal explicitly with the catastrophe of 1948. Palestinian life has been scattered, discontinuous, and affected by what he calls the "synchronized rhythms of disturbed time." Said's oeuvre mirrors this state but simultaneously transcends it in a permanent search for a new synthesis, which, Hussein argues, informs Said's approach not only to Conrad, Swift, and Eliot, but also to Lukacs, Williams, Gramsci, and Adorno.
"Should be compulsory reading for all those who value Edward Said's contribution to 20th-century intellectual life." —New Statesmen
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