Edward Said's concept of exile : identity and cultural migration in the Middle East / Rehnuma Sazzad.

a Machine generated contents note: 1.Exile and Intellectual Practice -- Said and the executive view of exile -- Said's explorations of exile -- 2.Middle Eastern Artists as Exilic Intellectuals -- The reflection of Said's ideas in contemporary Arab literature and film -- The Arab artists and exilic intellectual practice -- 3.Exile as Resistance -- Resistance against supremacist ideologies -- Resistance as an emancipatory project -- 4.The Place of Writing in Exile -- Adornian model: `Happy with the idea of unhappiness' -- Auerbachian model: cultivating `the pleasures of exile' -- `The last Jewish intellectual': Saidian legacy -- 5.Exile in the Contexts of Postcolonialism and Postmodernism -- Nationalism and voyage in: postcolonialism in perspective -- Postmodernism and the exilic stance on established narratives -- Contrapuntal rather than postcolonial or postmodern criticism.