Arab-American Autobiography – Edward Said’s Out of Place
Arab-American Autobiography – Edward Said’s Out of Place

Summary/Abstract: This is a less-known portrait of the author of Orientalism as an Arab American writer of the exile, taking into account the ambiguous, even multidisciplinary nature of the term: an external exile of the writers and their characters, following similar paths; an inner exile, manifested by the writing through its space of creation which is, among others, the language, the mythical place of a quest for identity, which crystallizes all the linguistic tensions with the origin in the learning of the colonizer’s language (English, in our case) by the colonized; or, it could simply mean exile as deterritorialization.

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