Said, Edward W. - Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lectures non-fiction Crossings takes queer sex practices

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

In a land where even prayers are banished from taking root

These are not just poems

Death awareness leads to a valuing of life

As she charts her last weeks and her abasement at the hands of doctors and illness

Said, Edward W. - Representations of the Intellectual: The 1933 Reith Lectures non-fiction Crossings takes queer sex practicesAre 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