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Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said

by Timothy Brennan

Places of Mind is a biography of Edward Said, the Palestinian intellectual who shot to prominence with his damning critique of how Westerners write about the East, Orientalism, in 1978. The biography is written by his student and friend Timothy Brennan.

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