Landscapes of a distant mother / Said ; translated by Kenneth J. Northcott.
Landscapes of a distant mother / Said ; translated by Kenneth J. Northcott.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
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Date
2004.
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N831.914/3
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English
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p. cm.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
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Illinois
Date Published
2004.
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"The book chronicles the discomfiting sensation of viewing one's mother as a stranger and all the psychological implications of their mutual disappointment. SAID's distance from his mother - whom he describes almost clinically, with her "particular way of speaking, the style laced with religious formulas, inclined to emotionalism, self-pity and exp...
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Landscapes of a distant mother / Said ; translated by Kenneth J. Northcott.
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N831.914/3
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74VKwXBjQKPd
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0226733769 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226733760 (cloth : alk. paper)
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831.914
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991018372899702626