Boundary 2

by Bove, Paul A.

• ISBN13: 9780822364597
• ISBN10: 082236459X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

This volume begins to show why the current period in humanistic studies could be known as "The Age of Edward Said." The collection brings together outstanding intellectuals from the wide variety of fields to which Edward Said, the most important humanist of his generation, has made contributions: literary criticism, postcolonial studies, musicology, Middle Eastern Studies, anthropology, and journalism.Featured is a new interview with Said, conducted by W. J. T. Mitchell, in which Said discusses the importance of the visual to his thinking, specifically the works of Goya and Caravaggio, which in turn made possible Said's valuable contributions to our understanding of photography and painting. Other contributions reflect on Said's influences on the American public sphere; the subtle personal politics that inform the relationship between music and emotion; Said's importance to a thinking about "race before racism" and the disappearance of the American; and jazz man Jim Merod reflects on Said's "sublime lyrical abstractions." Covering with insight the many debates Said so deftly entered and formed, the distinguished contributors to this volume reflect upon his oeuvre to create an atmosphere of thoughtfulness, questioning, and interactivity.

Table of Contents

Paul A. Bove
Introduction	1	(10)
W. J. T. Mitchell
The Panic of the Visual: A Conversation with Edward W. Said	11	(24)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Race before Racism: The Disappearance of the American	35	(20)
Jonathan Arac
Criticism between Opposition and Counterpoint	55	(16)
Terry Cochran
The Matter of Language	71	(24)
Lindsay Waters
In Responses Begins Responsibility: Music and Emotion	95	(22)
Jim Merod
The Sublime Lyrical Abstractions of Edward W. Said	117	(28)
Kojin Karatani
Uses of Aesthetics: After Orientalism	145	(16)
Rashid I. Khalidi
Edward W. Said and the American Public Sphere: Speaking Truth to Power	161	(18)
Barbara Harlow
Sappers in the Stacks: Colonial Archives, Land Mines, and Truth Commissions	179	(26)
Mustapha Marrouchi
Counternarratives, Recoveries, Refusals	205	(54)
Books Received	259	(6)
Contributors	265