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The Edward Said Reader. Eds. Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin. New York: Vintage Books Original, Random House, 2000.
The Edward Said Reader draws from Said's work of the last 34 years, starting with his published Harvard doctoral dissertation, Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography (1966), through his political writings on Palestine in the 1970s and 1980s, his ground-breaking Orientalism (1978), to his memoir, Out of Place (1999). The collection constructs Said's life as that of a formidable cultural and literary critic, attested to by his numerous, influential, and controversial publications. Furthermore, the collection draws Said's biography as a complicated and poignant human story. The editors "flesh out" Said through all the anxieties and vulnerabilities of his proclaimed identity as an "exile" and also through his very human struggle with leukemia, diagnosed in...