by Edward W. Said · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497592918
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«Fuera de lugar» is the memoir by critic and thinker Edward W. Said, published by Debolsillo in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Said reconstructs his childhood and youth between Jerusalem, Cairo and the United States to explain an identity divided between East and West. The memoir addresses exile, dispossession and inner exile from personal experience, and was conceived after a return to childhood places and during a serious illness.
Work originally published in English as «Out of Place» and translated by Javier Calvo; this Spanish edition appeared in 2003 in the collection «Essay | Memoirs».
For readers of memoirs and biographies interested in the experience of exile and in Edward W. Said's thought on identity between cultures.
Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.
