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Title: Out of Place : A Memoir by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0-679-73067-2 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (30 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting Memoir
Comment: There are three interesting aspects of this book. The first is the re-creation of the life and lifestyle of the Palestinian, make that Arab bourgeoise-a subject that even its own members try to dodge in their discussion of Arab issues. The second is the life of dysfunctional little Edward in his very dysfunctional family with his totally off-the-wall parents. Finally, is the story of how Said's identity as a man and as a critic emerged from that background. Two points should be made: One is the way he was always characterized by the-powers-that-be in his school as "dishonest" or "ingenuous" and usually for no real or tangible reason. As the student with the highest marks in his American boarding school, he was denied the title of Valevictorian for some unspecified flaws in his character. The second point is that because of these experiences, Said developed an accute sense of how people are classified, objectified, and placed into "boxes" by hegimonic systems. This is perhaps what is most revealing about this book: how character and childhood experiences form the general outlook of a human being and how a human being who gets to be a critic can develop these ideas in the most sophisticated of manners and then bring them in or inflict them on the world. I feel sorry for Said the child but wonder what his fate would have been if her were in more ordinary socioeconomic circumstances, let us say, American Middle Class. I symptathize with his character predictiments, and whatever flaws he has in that realm are no worse than those of others in academia.
In one section of the book, he describes his impressions of an American school after being in a British one. His way of looking at students and society in an American school are dead on accurate and dead on fatal. I liked that part of the book the most. I wish he would write a whole book of criticism on the society and system of an American high school.
Rating: 5
Summary: truely a proustian portrait!
Comment: Many here have acknowleged this: its a wonderful book. one of the thing that i really admire Said is his memory. He's got an incredible memory!. he remembers each and every students, friends, family meembers, from grade 1 till his graduate mates. he's also very honest and in one in his personal expose,he mentions the time when his pyjamas would be examined constantly for seamen stain (and if not found any then, his parents would scold him for "torturing oneself").second, his taste in music and language is also very interesting and amazing (He's known for his musical criticism as well for those of you who dont know yet). third, he's very eloquent and and meticulous. he doesnt give lazyness a chance (not even (in said's words) "professionalism"). Its an incredible read esp. regarding his sympathy towards his people and the existing palestinian predicament. he doesnt vilifiy jews, americans or french but is priviliged by the kind of scholarship that he was givin changce to be part of.what he laments is the semi-hegemonic advances he had to go through while he was in western schools and he doesnt mention much about his experiences in universities but his longing for his homeland was inevitable.As far as he could remember, even before he moved to U.S, jews and arabs were living peacefully and he cherish those moments. The scenery and the picturesque landscapes of beirut, jerusalem, cairo and others that he discribes in his book is incredibly romantic. Lastly, make use of your idle 'day off' and read this brilliant critic, intellectual writer and one of the geatest public intellectual narrates his life story in a precise and exquisite words woven into this 300+ pages book. And by the way, he's known the world over to be by far, the greatest Palestinian Scholar and polarized orientalism in his previous canonical text "orientalim". this one, by far is one of the greatest memoir i've ever come across.
Rating: 5
Summary: What they won't tell you on FOX News
Comment: Ignore Mendel's vicious smear on Said's honesty below - he is repeating a right-wing smear which is as crude as the falsified Kerry-Fonda photo.
If you really want to understand what is going on in the Middle East, it is your duty to seek out the most moderate, intelligent voices from the other side, listen to them and try to understand them. Few are as intelligent, cogent, and passionate as Said.
Or, like Mendel, you can live happily in the ignorance of your cable-news-fed view that "All Ay-rabs are evil".
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Title: Orientalism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 039474067X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0679750541 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Reflections on Exile and Other Essays : by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0674009975 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 30 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0679739882 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Power, Politics, and Culture by Edward W. Said ISBN: 1400030668 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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