...-vis Palestine was displaced by the far more politically “effective” exceptionalist jeremiadic ideology of the “pioneering” New World. Edward W. Said and Zionism: Rethinking the Exodus Story William V. Spanos There is no Israel without...

... and intellectual interventions against exclusivist cultural nationalisms may be found in the idea of secular criticism deployed by Edward W. Said, which holds history and historicist thinking as crucial in developing a critical position that can contest essentialist thinking without resorting to the postsecular...

... in 1978 by Edward W. Said. The Soviet critique of the imperialist foundations of Eurocentric culture and academic knowledge formed the basis for the huge World Literature publishing project pioneered by Maxim Gorky, an initiative which has been largely disregarded—both historically and theoretically...

...Edward W. Said Edward W. Said 2003 Erich Auerbach, Critic of the Earthly World Edward W. Said . . . human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them to give...

... in postcolonial studies as The Legacy of Edward Said (2009), and Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint (2012). Despite his abiding work, postcolonial scholars have largely left Spanos’s ideas unexplored.5 I argue that Spanos’s corrosive postcolonial critique of Pax Americana...

.... The conversion of the absence of religion into the presence of actuality is secular interpretation.6 6. Edward W. Said, ‘‘Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, Community in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), 131. Gourgouris...

.... , translated by Newman Jane O. , 3 – 10 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Bhabha Homi . 2005 . “ Adagio .” In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation , edited by Bhabha Homi Mitchell W. J. T. , 7 – 16 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Blackmur R. P...

...” as elaborated by Said in Culture and Imperialism . The essay attempts to understand the motives and significance of this difference. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 William V. Spanos Sacvan Bercovitch Edward W. Said Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court...

... Con- radian aroma: ‘‘The overall sensation I had was of my troublesome iden- tity as an American inside whom lurked another Arab identity from which I derived no strength, only embarrassment and discomfort’’ (90); or ‘‘my en- Book Reviewed: Edward W. Said, Out of Place: A Memoir (London: Granta...

... be constantly 3. See, for instance, Edward W. Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic (London: Faber and Faber, 1984), 230–34; and Culture and Imperialism (New York: Knopf, 1993), 270–72. 4. Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 120–21. 5. I am grateful to my friend Jonathan Arac...

... [1992], America’s Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire [1999], Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” [2013 as a tacit theme (in Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint [2012...

... has been a privilege and a pleasure. Here’s to you, Bill, in unconditional ontico-­ontological solidarity. 1. William V. Spanos, The Legacy of Edward W. Said (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009), x. boundary 2 42:1 (2015) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2828254 © 2015 by Duke University Press...

... was essentially a ‘‘laicized Chris- 4. Amitav Ghosh, ‘‘The Anglophone Empire New Yorker, April 7, 2003, 46. 5. Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1979), 69–70. 38 boundary 2 / Summer 2004 tian supernaturalism’’ (O, 122) dressed to modern taste by philology. It was criticism in this vein...

...: as with the scholarly appen- dix to Orwell’s book, Against the Day arrives from an indeterminate time to challenge those forces that compete to determine the future—that is to say, the present—as if this were the intention announced with the novel’s title.14 4 Edward W. Said’s Beginnings (1975...

... Gramsci, Edward W. Said, Michel Fou- cault, and Gilles Deleuze, among others, he called on academics to embrace the role of the “adversarial intellectual” during what he called the October 1982, 46–53. William J. Bennett, secretary of education from 1985 to 1988, chairman of the National...

... of Edward W. Said (2009), and Herman Melville and Contributors  245 the American Calling: The Fiction After Moby-Dick, 1851–1857 (2009). Two books are forthcoming: In the Neighborhood of Zero: A World War II Memoir (Univer- sity...

... of World Literature,” in The Routledge Companion to World Literature, ed. Theo D’haen, David Damrosch, and Djelal Kadir (New York: Routledge, 2012), 71–80. 4. Edward W. Said, Humanism and Democratic Criticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004). 74 boundary 2 / Summer 2012 tions, “world...

... it widely alluring. Secularism itself has various definitions, some more antireligious 11. Edward W. Said, “Religious Criticism,” in The World, the Text, and the Critic (Cam- bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), 290. 12. Said, “Religious Criticism,” 291. 13. James Clifford...

... in a Postcolonial Empire Jonathan Arac I write this essay thinking of Edward W. Said (1935–2003), the American and Palestinian writer and teacher, whose work continues to ani- mate critics and intellectuals around the world, and whose call...

..., the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies (1995); America’s Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire (2000). His latest books, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam; The Legacy of Edward W. Said; and Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction After...