"exile is strangely compelling to think about but……" — Edward Said
"exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement."
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39 Quotes by Edward Said
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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power,…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist,…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not…
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