...Philip Balboni Abstract This essay works to clarify Edward Said’s writings on religion, criticism, and the secular, arguing that this clarification has serious implications not only for Said’s project of “secular criticism” but also for understanding the workings of what he called the “critical...

... in Edward Said’s secular criticism between filiative and affiliative social bonds. Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 Dubravka Ugrešić exile post-Yugoslav literature Edward Said affiliation True genesis is not at the beginning but at the end, and it starts to begin only when...

... and as a writer. This brings me to my third area of interest, which I term late style with reference to Theodor Adorno’s essay “Late Style in Beethoven” and Edward Said’s posthumously published book On Late Style. Late style, as I understand it, enters aesthetic practice either...

... of the Early Modern Period (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003). Gregg M. Horowitz, Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Abdirahman A. Hussein, Edward Said: Criticism and Society (London: Verso, 2002). Alexander Irwin...

... of a universal black experience belonging to pan-Africanism ( ud , 51–53). Beginnings, as Edward Said informs us, are always strategic, and the one Edwards provides emphasizes how “the turn to diaspora as a term of analysis allows for an account of black transnational formations that attends...

... again. Edward Said once characterized Conrad as a writer who “wished to say something very clearly.”16 That epistemological predicament was equally vocal and clings to Conrad’s attention to his own ac- quisition of English in his memoir of becoming a writer, A Personal Record (1912). While...

... difficulty emerges in the former) is taken from Edward Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989). ...

...,” in The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), 142. 12. After Edward Said’s Orientalism, the groundbreaking work of Ella Shohat and, differently, that of Ammiel Alcalay have enabled the emergence of a critical refl ection...

... . 2. Marx, “Letter to J. B. Schweizer.” 3. Important interventions in this discourse have been made by, among many others, David Harvey, Toni Negri and Michael Hardt, Silvia Federici, Nancy Fraser and Michael Dawson, Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou, Edward Said, Aijaz Ahmad, Patrick...

... view. The first is that Africa as a name, as an idea and as an object of academic and public discourse has been, and remains, fraught. It is fraught in ways that go beyond even the paradigm of orientalism introduced by Edward Said to speak to the staging of the difference of the non-West from...

... Criticism,” Edward Said tells his own version of this story, though he draws a different and less somber conclusion. Said describes modernity as the loss of “fi liation” with a natal home or place. In consequence, people search for a way to reconstitute that experience through the cre- ation...

.... Wright Mills (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 13–24; Edward Said, Humanism and Democratic Criticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004); and TBHE. 26. On the university’s relationship with the national security state, see David Price, “How the CIA...

... the subject’s ability to overlook the manifest for the sake of potentials. Almost a Kantian sublime turn, this reversal of failure to engage with the sensible into a supersensible superiority repeats the logic of colonization itself. As Edward Said argues, what enabled imperialist attitudes toward lands...

...—is indeed the age of the refugee, the displaced person, mass immigration. Edward W. Said, “Reflections on Exile” You arrive at Drawing in the Diaspora , an exhibit featuring the work of the Chicago-born Palestinian artist Leila Abdelrazaq held at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn...

... in The Order of Things to a pattern of domination that was neither calm nor restrained, Foucault’s ideas were enormously important for postcolonial studies, particularly the work of Edward Said and V. Y. Mudimbe.5 Foucault’s early curios- ity was directed toward the overlapping structure...

...Michael Lucey This article uses the writings of Erving Goffman, M. M. Bakhtin, and Edward Sapir to pose some questions about what is happening when spoken language is produced. In particular, it looks at certain complexities of the partial roles of “animator,” “author,” and “principal,” into which...

... of feeling" and Edward Said has further elabo- rated in the concept of "structures of attitude and reference."2° The efficacy of such cognitive and affective stances, or "sets toward" the world (to retool an important concept of Husserlian phenomenology and Jakobsonian...

...- Srinivasan: Divisions of Labor 259 tifi ed by name in the evaluations, they are asked to identify their depart- ment and major fi eld” (ww, 334n20). 7. See Erich Auerbach, “Philology and Weltliteratur (1952 trans. Marie and Edward Said, Centennial Review 13, no. 1 (1969): 1–17; and A. Owen...

... of the loss and on-going search for temporal stability.” 62 If the checkpoint were to speak, it would echo the predicament of Palestinians’ disordered space-time, which, as Edward Said posited decades ago, is marked by “the dislocations and unsynchronized rhythms of disturbed time.” 63 More specifically...

... these tweets were transmitted. What if some of our foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century had had access to Twitter? What would Edward Said have tweeted? Like any form of expression, Twitter is driven not only through content but also via a technological platform. How...