Said, Edward W. - Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lectures non-fiction In a land where even

In a land where even prayers are banished from taking root

Crossings takes queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making

In Lentz’s prose

— Library Journal

the knowledge we call knowledge

Said, Edward W. - Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lectures non-fiction In a land where evenAre intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses this question with extraordinary eloquence. Said sees the intellectual as an exile and amateur whose role it is "to speak the truth to power" even at the risk of ostracism or imprisonment. Drawing on the examples of Jonathan Swift and Theodor