PLACES OF MIND

Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biogra phy of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellectuals of the 20th century. In Brennan's masterful work, Said, the pioneer of post-colonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine, and an erudite literary critic, emerges as a self-do ubting, tender, and eloquent advocate of literature's dramatic effects on politics and civic life.Places of the Mind charts the inte rtwined r...[Read more]