Bringing Exile Home: Review of Ned Curthoys and Debjani Ganguly (eds) Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual

Author: Jolly Margaret  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 1444-2213

Source: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Vol.9, Iss.2, 2008-06, pp. : 157-161

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Abstract

This recent collection of essays pays tribute to Edward Said, but is no hagiography. It explores the salience of concepts such as the public intellectual, exile and worldliness in his life and work. It considers the strengths and the limits of his vision, his passion for European high culture and classical music and his relative disinterest in popular culture and visual and electronic communication. It connects settler colonialism in Palestine and the US with Australia (where most of the contributors are located), while unsettling notions of 'exile' and 'home'.