Out of Place
A Memoir
About this book
"Out of Place is an extraordinary story of exile, a narrative of many departures, a celebration of an irrecoverable past.
A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers the Arab landscape of his early years - "the many places and people [who] no longer exist....Essentially a lost world." Vast changes occurred as Palestine became Israel, Lebanon was transformed by twenty years of civil war, and the colonial Egypt of King Farouk disappeared forever by 1952."--BOOK JACKET.
"Underscoring all is the confusion of identity as Said had to come to terms with the dissonance of being an American citizen, a Christian and a Palestinian, and, ultimately, an outsider."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- américains d'origine palestinienne
- american authors
- arab authors
- authors, biography
- biographies
- biographies, memoirs and correspondance
- biography
- biography & autobiography
- et l'islam
- general
- historical
- history
- intellectuals
- intellectuels
- new york times reviewed
- palestinian americans
- palestinian arabs
- palestinians
- palestiniens
- said, edward w., 1935-2003
- state & local
- united states of america