caa a22 4500 378937537 CHVBK 20180305123644.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200410 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/zaa.2004.52.4.351 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zaa.2004.52.4.351 Winnett Susan Writing in Place: Edward Said's Constructions of Exile [Elektronische Daten] [Susan Winnett] This essay examines the notions of place and self-placement central to Ed-ward Said's autobiographical memoir, Out of Place, and discusses their relation to the notion of exile that is so crucial to his intellectual legacy. In his theoretical writings, Said needs exile to be both literal and figurative: On the one hand, exile is the ultimate historical obscenity that cannot be made to stand for anything but itself. On the other hand, it is "a metaphorical condition” that characterizes the intellectual, such as him-self, whose homelessness allows him to do independent and courageous thinking. The implications of this double agenda are manifest in Said's critical practice. A discussion of Said's reading of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park illuminates his exilic investment in certain aspects of the culture to which he sees himself in opposition. © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik De Gruyter 52/4(2004-10), 351-365 52:4<351 2004 52 zaa https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.4.351 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.4.351 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Winnett Susan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik De Gruyter 52/4(2004-10), 351-365 52:4<351 2004 52 zaa CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter