Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics articles from January 1 2005

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics archives from January 1 2005

The late style of Edward Said.
January 1, 2005... Edward Said's interest in "late style"--a concept drawn from Theodor Adorno's account of Beethoven's late music--was explicitly channeled to a book project that was not, however, completed in his lifetime. Yet, a careful reading of Said's...

Reconciliation without duress: Said, Adorno, and the autonomous intellectual.
January 1, 2005... This article assesses the increasing importance of Theodor Adorno's writings on the work of Edward Said. It argues that Said's growing interest in Adorno derives substantially from his own political activism, particularly his principled...

Edward Said, humanism, and secular criticism.
January 1, 2005... Edward Said is best known for his examination of representations of the Orient in European literature--representations that, he argues, legitimated colonial rule. While he takes a critical view of orientalist representations, he at the same...

Notes on Edward Said's view of Michel Foucault.
January 1, 2005... This article explores Said's views of the contemporary French milieu, focusing on an important writer, equally open to wide-ranging interests, Michel Foucault. It analyzes the relationship among some recurring themes in Edward Said (culture,...

Last words: Said, Freud, and traveling theory.(Edward Said)
January 1, 2005... Said's Freud and the Non-European is an attempt to read Freud's Moses and Monotheism in the light of contemporary israeliPalestinian politics. Freud's excavation of Judaism shows its roots in Egyptian monotheism (the Aten cult of Akhenaten),...

Edward Said and the Avant-garde.
January 1, 2005... This article examines the interconnections between Said's critical oeuvre and a range of theoretical positions apropos of the European and American Avant-gardes. Questions raised in this article pertain to the critical deconstruction of generic...

Said and Achebe: writers at the crossroads of culture.
January 1, 2005... At a crucial point in the history of culture, a new generation of educated "natives" were finally able to use the tools they acquired through their encounter with the West to decode the deepseated images of colonial representation and re-code...

Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmad, and Salman Rushdie: resisting the ambivalence of postcolonial theory.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... This article examines Edward Said's personal, intellectual, and political affinities with Eqbal Ahmad and Salman Rushdie. Furthermore, it contrasts their common perspective with views held by two other notable South Asian intellectuals, V. S....

Perspectives of polyphony in Edward Said's writings.
January 1, 2005... As a child, Edward Said attended a recital by Umm Kalthoum. He was greatly puzzled and disturbed by it, and missed above all counterpoint, to which he was used because of his early familiarity with Western classical music. Later in his life, he...

Said, Orientalism, and Japan.
January 1, 2005... The first Japanese translation of Edward W. Said's Orientalism appeared in 1986. The theory of Orientalism, once brought into the East Asian context, becomes more complicated. There is no doubt that Japan is geographically situated in the...

Edward Said, cultural politics, and critical theory (an interview).(Interview)
January 1, 2005... In this interview with Alif conducted in writing in the fall of 2004, Terry Eagleton responds to questions raised concerning his work and Said's. Eagleton describes his relationship with Said and how it evolved, the occasional intersection...

A bibliographical guide to Edward Said.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2005... This entry provides a bilingual bibliographical guide to Edward Said's writing (books and articles), works on him (books and journals), and sources of information on him (documentary films and websites). The Arabic section provides a list of...

On the University.(Edward Said said)(Transcript)
January 1, 2005... Edward Said delivered this Address at the AUC Commencement in 1999, on the occasion of receiving an honorary doctorate degree. The academic space, he believes, is founded on freedom, which he commends in all its forms: opposing all restrictions...

Tribute to My Father *.(Edward Said)
January 1, 2005... He held my small, soft hand in his big, calloused one and walked me to nursery school. He taught me to stomp my boots to get the snow off, dressed me in itchy wool "trousers" and tartan button downs, made me scrambled eggs for every meal, and...

Becoming minor: on some significant encounters with Edward said.
January 1, 2005... During my undergraduate days at that grand edifice of colonial education, Presidency College, Calcutta, I came across a book, The World, the Text, and the Critic. I can't remember whether I picked it up from the bright and smart British Council...

Edward.(Edward W. Said's works)
January 1, 2005... Edward W. Said, the sixty-seven year-old man, who was to turn sixty-eight on November l, was buried on the top of a mountain slope overlooking a forest of trees in a cemetery in Broummana, a village in Metn where his wife Mariam Cortas grew up...

Desperate youth.(documentary images of Edward W. Said )
January 1, 2005... For a month or so after Edward Said's death the only documentary images I happened to see were fairly recent and very familiar photographs. They didn't add to the pictures already in my mind. Edward stood at his desk, he looked over his...

"Of the Place".(Remembering Edward Said)(Obituary)
January 1, 2005... In these testimonies recalling Edward Said--as a childhood friend (Hoda Guindi), an academic colleague (Michael Wood), an inspiring mentor (Andrew Rubin), a captivating role model (Ananya Jahanara Kabir), and a tender father (Najla...

Edward said and critical decolonization.
January 1, 2005... Three years ago, we planned to devote the entire issue of Alif 25 (to be published in 2005) to Edward Said, in recognition of his intellectual stature and on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. We had agreed to have an extensive interview...