Said, Edward W – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:16:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Said, Edward W – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The question of Palestine https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-question-of-palestine/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-question-of-palestine/ This original and deeply provocative book, first published in 1978, was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate - one that remains as critical as ever. 

]]> A major work by one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century, The Question of Palestine was the first book to narrate the modern Palestinian experience in English. Edward Said’s project to ‘bring Palestine into history’ was unquestionably a success – there is no longer a question of whether Palestine had a history before colonization – and yet Palestinian self-determination is as distant as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and shaped by his own life in exile in New York, Said’s account of the traumatic national encounter of the Palestinian people with Zionism is still as pertinent and incisive today as it was on first publication in 1979.

]]> PMC Orientalism Western Conceptions https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/pmc-orientalism-western-conceptions/ Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/pmc-orientalism-western-conceptions/ The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author

‘Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious’ Observer
‘Magisterial’ Terry Eagleton

In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation – a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the ‘otherness’ of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West’s romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism.
‘Beautifully patterned and passionately argued’
New Statesman

‘Very exciting … his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive’
John Leonard, New York Times

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