Transformation, not transcendence

Boundary 2

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 55-79

  Gourgouris, Stathis ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*

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EID: 60950207875     PISSN: 01903659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01903659-31-2-55     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. This essay is indebted to Bruce Robbins, who first articulated that Said's secularism should not be opposed strictly to religion but rather to nationalism, and to Aamir Mufti, who extends this further by perceiving Said's secular mind to be implicated in an episteme of homelessness and a political adherence to minority positions. See Bruce Robbins, "Secularism, Elitism, Progress, and Other Transgressions: On Edward Said's 'Voyage In'" (1994), in Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 115-26;
2. Aamir R. Mufti, "Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism, and the Question of Minority Culture," Critical Inquiry 25 (Autumn 1998): 95-125.
3. On the contrary, William D. Hart's Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) fails profoundly to understand these nuances of Said's grasp of the secular imagination, expending instead enormous energy to prove that Said's discourse is rather replete with unwitting religious metaphors.
4. See Stathis Gourgouris, Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), 123-54;
5. "The Gesture of the Sirens," in Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003), 161-97.
6. This excerpt is from a statement with the title "Message from Professor Stockhausen," dated September 19, 2001, www.stockhausen.com.
7. Edward W. Said, "Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, Community," in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), 131.
8. Edward W. Said, Musical Elaborations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 55.
9. Edward W. Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), 26.
10. Theodor W. Adorno, "The Essay as Form," trans. Bob Hullot-Kentor and Frederick Will, New German Critique 32 (Spring/Summer 1984): 155.
11. Adorno, "The Essay as Form," 161.
12. Said, Musical Elaborations, 70.
13. Daniel Barenboim and Edward W. Said, Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society, ed. Ara Guzelimian (New York: Pantheon, 2002), 12.
14. I discuss the poetics and politics of impersonation at length in "Lucid Drunkenness (Genet's Poetics of Revolution)," South Atlantic Quarterly 97, no. 2 (Spring 1998): 413-56.
15. Said's affinity for Genet (and particularly for his ability to enter the world of the other without appropriating it) is well known. See Edward W. Said, "On Jean Genet's Late Works," Grand Street 36 (1990): 27-42.
16. Edward W. Said, Out of Place: A Memoir (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), 3-4.
17. Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, trans. Andreas Mayor (New York: Vintage, 1971), 186.
18. Edward W. Said, "People's Rights and Literature," interview by Jonathan Rée (Cairo, 1993), in Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward Said, ed. Gauri Viswanathan (New York: Pantheon, 2001), 257.
19. I elaborate on the politics of sublimation, in specific reference to the way Cornelius Castoriadis conceptualizes it, in "Philosophy and Sublimation," Thesis Eleven 49 (Spring 1997): 31-43.
20. Edward W. Said, "Returning to Ourselves," interview by Jacqueline Rose (London, 1997-98), in Power, Politics, and Culture, 421-22.
21. Edward W. Said, "Orientalism and After," interview by Eleanor Wachtel (Toronto, 1996), in Power, Politics, and Culture, 226.
22. Said, "Returning to Ourselves," 429.
23. Stathis Gourgouris, "Conversation with Edward Said" (New York, 1990), Planodion (Athens, Greece) 16 (June 1992): 392-401.
24. Edward W. Said, "The One-State Solution," New York Times Magazine, January 10, 1999, 39.
25. Said relates the episode at length in "Literary Theory at the Crossroads of Public Life," interview by Imre Saluzinsky (London, 1987), in Power, Politics, and Culture, 69-93.
26. Edward W. Said, "Criticism and the Art of Politics," interview by Jennifer Wicke and Michael Sprinker, in Edward Said: A Critical Reader, ed. Michael Sprinker (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 232.
27. Edward W. Said, "My Right of Return," interview by Ari Shavit (Tel Aviv, 2000), in Power, Politics, and Culture, 457.
28. Said, "My Right of Return," 458.
29. See Edward W. Said, "Adorno as Lateness Itself," in Adorno: A Critical Reader, ed. Nigel Gibson and Andrew Rubin (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 193-208.
30. Edward W. Said, Freud and the Non-European (London: Verso, 2003), 54.
31. Edward W. Said, "The Future of Criticism," in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, 171.