Global comparativism

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 472-489

  Mufti, Aamir R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33749257448     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430976     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. See Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Death of a Discipline (New York, 2003).
2. Shu-mei Shih, "Global Literature and the Technologies of Recognition," PMLA 119 (Jan. 2004): 16.
3. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, N.J., 2000), p. 27; hereafter abbreviated PE.
4. Spivak, Death of a Discipline, p. 9.
5. Charles Bernheimer et al., "The Bernheimer Report, 1993: Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Century," in Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism, ed. Bernheimer (Baltimore, 1995), pp. 44, 43.
6. Wlad Godzich, The Culture of Literacy (Cambridge, Mass., 1994), p. 278.
7. A consideration of the vast vistas opened up by Pascale Casanova, La Republique mondiale des lettres (Paris, 1999) must of necessity be postponed for another occasion.
8. Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York, 1993), pp. 47, 45, 50, 45.
9. I am using the following editions here: Al-Tayyib Salih, Mawsim al-hijra'ila al-shamal (Cairo, 1969)
10. and Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North, trans. Denys Johnson-Davies (London, 1985). I have altered the Johnson-Davies translation as I felt necessary.
11. See Said, Culture and Imperialism, p. 311
12. and Saree Makdisi, "The Empire Renarrated: Season of Migration to the North and the Reinvention of the Present," Critical Inquiry 18 (Summer 1992): 804-20.
13. Salih, Mawsim al-hijra'ila al-shamal, pp. 113-14;
14. Salih, Season of Migration to the North, pp. 136-38.
15. Abdallah Laroui, L'Idéologie arabe contemporaine: Essai critique (Paris, 1967), p. 68.
16. Said, Orientalism (1978; New York, 1994), p. 25; hereafter abbreviated O.
17. See Emily Apter, "Global Translatio: The 'Invention' of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933," Critical Inquiry 29 (Winter 2003): 253-81.
18. This point could be made at much greater length with reference to his posthumously published work, Humanism and Democratic Criticism (New York, 2004), an exercise that I must postpone for another occasion.
19. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, Mass., 2000), pp. xv-xvi.
20. See Susan Buck-Morss, Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (London, 2003);
21. Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London, 2004);
22. and Ronald Judy, "Sayyid Qutb's fiqh al-waqi'i or New Realist Science," Boundary 231 (Summer 2004): 113-48.
23. Franco Moretti, "Conjectures on World Literature," New Left Review, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2000): 68.