What nations are for
Tom Nairn, 8 September 1994
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
by Edward Said.
Chatto, 400 pp., £20, July 1994,0 7011 6135 3 Show More
by Edward Said.
Chatto, 400 pp., £20, July 1994,
Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures
by Edward Said.
Vintage, 90 pp., £4.99, July 1994,0 09 942451 7 Show More
by Edward Said.
Vintage, 90 pp., £4.99, July 1994,
“... The family were Greek-Orthodox Christians, converted to Anglicanism in the late 19th century. When young Edward’s vertebral slackness got too pronounced for them he was packed off to America, aged 15. He had never seen snow, and was compelled to invent a new personality at a puritanical New England boarding school. A few years later he escaped to ... ”