Livre - The politics of dispossession
B 5252
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Livre
Vintage
Said Edward W. 1935 - 2003
Presentation materielle : 1 vol. (xlviii-450 p.)
Dimensions : 21 cm
Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America’s most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only Palestinians but also the Arab and Muslim worlds and their tortuous relations with the West. In The Politics of Dispossession Said traces his people’s struggle for statehood through twenty-five years of exile, from the PLO’s bloody 1970 exile from Jordan through the debacle of the Gulf War and the ambiguous 1994 peace accord with Israel. As frank as he is about his personal involvement in that struggle, Said is equally unsparing in his demolition of Arab icons and American shibboleths. Stylish, impassioned, and informed by a magisterial knowledge of history and literature, The Politics of Dispossession is a masterly synthesis of scholarship and polemic that has the power to redefine the debate over the Middle East.
Acknowledgments -- xi Introduction -- xiii 1. The Palestinian Experience (1968-1969) -- p. 3 2. The Palestinians One Year Since Amman (1971) -- p. 24 3. Palestinians (1977) -- p. 30 4. The Acre and the Goat (1979) -- p. 33 5. Peace and Palestinian Rights (1980) -- p. 43 6. Palestinians in the United States (1981) -- p. 52 7. The Formation of American Public Opinion on the Question of Palestine (1980) -- p. 56 8. Palestinians in the Aftermath of Beirut: A Preliminary Stocktaking (1982) -- p. 69 9. An Ideology of Difference (1985) -- p. 78 10. Solidly Behind Arafat (1983) -- p. 81 11. Who Would Speak for Palestinians? (1985) -- p. 84 12. On Palestinian Identity: A Conversation with Salman Rushdie (1986) -- p. 107 13. Review of Wedding in Galilee and Friendship's Death (1988) -- p. 130 14. How to Answer Palestine's Challenge (1988) -- p. 137 15. Palestine Agenda (December 1988) -- p. 145 16. Palestinians in the Gulf War's Aftermath (1991) -- p. 152 17. The Prospects for Peace in the Middle East (1991) -- p. 156 18. Return to Palestine-Israel (1992) -- p. 175 19. U.S. Policy and the Conflict of Powers in the Middle East (1973) -- p. 203 20. The Arab Right Wing (1979) -- p. 224 21. A Changing World Order: The Arab Dimension (1980) -- p. 231 22. The Death of Sadat (1981) -- p. 243 23. Permission to Narrate (1984) -- p. 247 24. "Our" Lebanon (1984) -- p. 269 25. Sanctum of the Strong (1989) -- p. 273 26. Behind Saddam Hussein's Moves (August 1990) -- p. 278 27. A Tragic Convergence (January 11, 1991) -- p. 283 28. Ignorant Armies Clash by Night (February 11, 1991) -- p. 287 29. The Arab-American War: The Politics of Information (March 1991) -- p. 295 30. The Intellectuals and the War (April 1991) -- p. 304 31. Chomsky and the Question of Palestine (1975) -- p. 323 32. Reticences of an Orientalist (1986) -- p. 337 33. Identity, Negation and Violence (1988) -- p. 341 34. The Orientalist Express: Thomas Friedman Wraps Up the Middle East (1989) -- p. 360 35. On Nelson Mandela, and Others (1990) -- p. 366 36. Embargoed Literature (1990) -- p. 372 37. The Splendid Tapestry of Arab Life (1991) -- p. 379 38. The Other Arab Muslims (1993) -- p. 384 Epilogue -- p. 413 Notes -- p. 421 Permissions Acknowledgments -- p. 431 Index. p. 433
Notes bibliogr. Index.
