POWER, POLITICS AND CULTURE: INTERVIEWS WITH EDWARD W. SAID BOOK DESCRIPTION
No single book has encompassed the vast scope of Edward Said's erudition quite
like Power, Politics and Culture - a collection of his interviews from the last
three decades. In these twenty-nine interviews, Said addresses everything from
Palestine to Pavarotti, from his nomadic upbringing under colonial rule to his
politically active and often controversial life in America, and reflects on
Austen, Beckett, Conrad, Naipaul, Mahfouz and Rushdie as well as fellow critics
Bloom, Derrida and Foucault. Said speaks here with his usual candour, acuity and
eloquence - confirming that he was in