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Mustapha Marrouchi

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357

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2012

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State University of New York Press

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01 février 2012

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9780791485729

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

On Edward Said at the Limits, Mustapha Marrouchi offers a sensitive critique of Edward Said, one of America's foremost commentators on the Palestinian cause. Marrouchi does justice to the extraordinary life of a complex figure who was fundamentally a humanist committed to the eradication of domination and whose angry and eloquent writings are of fierce relevance to the fragmented world in which we live. The Said story has become the model for the struggle to rewrite colonial history.

Offering the most up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography of Said's work, this is the only single author book devoted solely to Edward Said and his writing.

Preface

Introduction: Edward Said at the Limits

1. The Intellectual with a Mandate

2. The Old/New Idiot: Rereading the Postcolonial Sign

3. My Homeland, the Text

4. The Site of Memory

5. The Will to Authority and Transgression

6. Quite Right: In Defense of Edward Said

7. On Writing, Intellectual Life, and the Public Sphere

8. Sa-ed Data Base 19662002

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791485729

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

Middle East Literary theory

EDWARDSAID A T T H E L I M I T S

M U S T A P H A M A R R O U C H I

Edward Said at the Limits

By Mustapha Marrouchi

State University of New York Press

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Marrouchi, Mustapha, 1956– Edward Said at the limits / by Mustapha Marrouchi. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5965-9 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5966-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Literature, Modern—History and criticism—Theory, etc. 2. Said, Edward W. 3. Criticism—History—20th century. 4. Power (Social sciences) in literature. 5. Politics and culture. 6. Politics and literature. I. Title.

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For the women of IΩhtjk%H (Intifada)

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

—Antonio Gramsci,Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 45.

If one is writing within and about an already “raced” milieu, advocacy and argu-ment are irresistible. Rage against the soul murder embedded in the subject matter runs the risk of forcing the “raced” writer to choose among a limited array of strategies: documenting their seething; conscientiously, studiously avoiding it; struggling to control it; or, as in this instance, manipulating its heat. Animating its dross into a fine art of subversive potency . . . . In his portrait of [the Other] . . . , [Edward Said] . . . not only summoned a sophisticated, wholly . . . imginastic vocabulary in which to launch a discursive negotiation with the West, he exploited with technical finesse the very images that have served white writers for generations. Toni Morrison, “On ‘The Radiance of the King,’” 18.

For those of us who see the struggle between Eastern and Western descriptions of the world as both an internal and an external struggle, Edward Said has for many years been an especially important voice. —Salman Rushdie,Imaginary Homelands, 166.

Edward Said’s metaphors alone tell an interesting story: the wanderer, the road, textual space, the foundling, widowhood, the dynasty, molestation, the harried critic, the monstrous library, “the tumbling disorder of brute reality that will not settle down.” —Michael Wood, “Damaging Thought,” xi.

Ghazal For Edward Said

In Jerusalem a dead phone’s dialed by exiles. You learn your strange fate: you were exiled by exiles. You open the heart to list unborn galaxies. Don’t shut that folder when Earth is filed by exiles. Before Night passes over the wheat of Egypt, let stones be leavened, the bread torn wild by exiles. Crucified Mansoor was alone with the Alone: God’s loneliness—just His—compiled by exiles. By the Hudson lies Kashmir, brought from Palestine— It shawls the piano, Bach beguiled by exiles. Tell me who’s tonight the Physician of Sick Pearls? Only you as you sit, Desert child, by exiles. Match Majnoon (he kneels to pray on a wine-stained rug) or prayer will be nothing, distempered mild by exiles. “Even things that are true can be proved.” Even they? Swear not by Art but, O Oscar Wilde, by exiles. Don’t weep, we’ll drown out the Calls to Prayer, O Saqi— I’ll raise my glass before wine is defined by exiles.

Was—after the last sky—this the fashion of fire: Autumn’s mist pressed to ashes styled by exiles? If my enemy’s alone and his arms are empty, give him my heart silk-wrapped like a child by exiles. Will you, Beloved Stranger, ever witness Shahid— two destinies at last reconciled by exiles? —Agha Shahid Ali, “Ghazal 1: For Edward Said” 1998.

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