...Ivan Delazari This article explores the “encyclopedic” properties of Madeleine Thien's Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016), seeking to define the novel as inherently comparative —that is, providing, in Edward Said's words, “a comparative or, better, a contrapuntal perspective” on the world...

... on their collaborative efforts as well as the finished results of said efforts throw into stark relief the interdependent processes of writing and reading, semiotic encoding and interpreting, as they characterize the formation and reformation of generic conventions. Moreover, the ludic facets of the Detection Club...

... in times of conflict was one that long engaged Melville. Much could be said about Moby-Dick and irresponsible bloodshed. This essay revisits Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855), which anticipates the tenor, form, and loss of hope that comes to the fore in Battle-Pieces . I make this turn...

... and style: from narcissism, emotional exile, and thwarted confession to compassionate love and consolatory elegy, from what Edward W. Said called “late style” to its antithesis, “timeliness.” Closely reading each text's presentation of perspective and closure and elements of the film's style, including mise...

...Steve Pinkerton Ralph Ellison's long‐neglected essay “Tell It Like It Is, Baby” (1965) has lately received increased critical attention as a revealing paratext for Ellison's unfinished second novel. Yet little has been said about that essay's conspicuous psychosexual themes or its confoundingly...

... Benhabib Seyla , eds. 1997 . Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Pecora Vincent P. 2006 . Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Said Edward . 1983...

... and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2006 . ----. “ Foucault, Modernity, and the Cultural Study of Science .” Configurations 7.2 . ( 1999 ): 153 - 173 . Said Edward . Orientalism . Random House , 1979 . Robert Markley, The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730...

... itself as the strong rhythm, and the conversation of the band members, inspired by what they see out their windows, as the solos. A good example of this occurs when the bus is moving through southern states along the East coast: Well, there's old man Johnny Jim Crow, Schoolboy, he said...

..., and those responsible for me were so puzzled that I got away with it. It was a coping mechanism. In my first year as an intern I made a bargain with whatever devil runs medicine. I said, “I’ll stay till I finish a book of poems, then let me go.” He said, “OK.” We shook on it, but by the time I thumbed...

...Steven Salaita Said Edward . Out of Place: A Memoir . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1999 . 304 pp. © COPYRIGHT 2001 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2001 Srinivas Aravamudan. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999.424...

... must still set out to do. REVIEWS 239 Said, Edward. Out of Place: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 304 pp. Though Edward Said's importance as a scholar of literary and colonial dis- course is well known, his prominence...

... must still set out to do. REVIEWS 239 Said, Edward. Out of Place: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 304 pp. Though Edward Said's importance as a scholar of literary and colonial dis- course is well known, his prominence...

... must still set out to do. REVIEWS 239 Said, Edward. Out of Place: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 304 pp. Though Edward Said's importance as a scholar of literary and colonial dis- course is well known, his prominence...

... in the book itself are indicative of the exten- sive work anglophone scholars of this literature must still set out to do. REVIEWS 239 Said, Edward. Out of Place: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 304 pp. Though Edward Said's...

...: And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds. (19:30) In medieval rabbinic exegesis one encounters the sensible...

... important mode of political action that we have open to us. It's a question of patience and impatience, and I'm not sure which side is right. I can see the critics on the other side saying, “OK, but by patience you mean wait until the year 2100. That's what they said about racism in the south—‘give us time...

... inside and I mopped a terazzo floor while the guys shared coffee with me and I listened to their stories. "I'm looking at thirty; the guidelines say thirty," an Iranian arms merchant caught playing for the wrong team. "Old law?" I asked him. "New law," he said. "Thirty...

... and without, immediately lost standing and forfeited the chance to be heard, became marginalized or simply silenced, in the face of a media-led straitening of the pos- sible range of things that could be said. And even after the initial shock of 9/11 had receded, one's standing to speak depended largely...

..." might be said to be a state. ("State" here translates the German "Zustand," which could also be rendered as "condition The countering remark ("But a mental state questions, however, whether understanding a word can be said to be a mental state, thereby pursuing Wittgenstein's persistent...

..., but by improvising. Regarding Prime Time, one day Ornette said that the written parts are as improvised as the improvisations them- selves. That is a great lesson, your lesson, on what's happening—when it's hap- pening: to the improviser, unforeseeably, without seeing it coming, unpre- dictably. I'm going...