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Combing theories that have dictated what literature should be and who is allowed to write it - she traces the genesis of a cultural template that consistently exiles feminine experience to the realm of the 'minor,' and diagnoses women for transgressing social bounds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'ANXIETY: When she experiences it, it's pathological,' writes Zambreno. 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With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile’s passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward Said traces the fatal collision between two peoples in the Middle East and its repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied – as well as in the conscience of the West. For anyone interested in this region and its future, \u003cem\u003eThe Question of Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e remains the most useful and authoritative account available.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication: 10th Oct 2024, Fitzcarraldo Editions\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN: 9781804271353\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExtent: 320 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49026144436521,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781804271353.jpg?v=1721559464"},{"product_id":"the-use-of-photography-by-annie-ernaux-pre-order","title":"The Use of Photography by Annie Ernaux","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in France in 2005, \u003cem\u003eThe Use of Photography\u003c\/em\u003e recounts a passionate love affair between Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo for breast cancer during the prior three months, and had lost all her hair from the treatments. At the end of January she had surgery, followed by radiation therapy.  The affair took place in different locations and Ernaux describes how, shortly after it began, she found herself entranced each morning by the sight of clothes strewn about, chairs out of place and the remains of their last meal of the evening still on the table – and how painful it felt to put things back in order afterward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe went and got her camera, and began to take photographs of the scenes of disarray. 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