Edward Said: The Paradox of Identity, and: Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power, and: Edward Said: A Critical Introduction (review)

Drawing on speech acts theory, this article discusses the illocutionary and perlocutionary forces of discursive practices with which certain academic circles seek to discredit the Saidian ‘Orientalism’ framework. Identifying the unusual value attached to Said as object of attachment or detachment, desirability and exceptionality, this analysis turns away from deliberations about ‘orientalism’ as a party in a battle of ideas, and studies common cautionary statements and other responses by peers as actions in the social (academic) world, that enculture and police expectations. Cautioning subjects about this framework, or conditioning its employment to preceding extensive pre-emptive complicating mitigations, in effect constructs this framework as undesirable and ‘risky’. While strong discursive reactions are not uncommon in academia, comparing them to treatments of less-controversial social theories reveals formulations, meanings and attentions which are arguably reserved for this ‘theory’. Conclusively, common dismissals, warnings and criticisms of Said and ‘Orientalism’ often exemplify Saidian claims, as they deploy the powerful advantage of enforcing hegemonic, and indeed Orientalist, views.

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Edward Said: Prophet of Justice

Holy Land Studies ◽

10.3366/hls.2004.0003 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 144-145

Author(s):

Naim S. Ateek

Keyword(s):

Edward Said

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Edward Said, Postcolonialism and Palestine's Contested Spaces

Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies ◽

10.3366/hlps.2017.0150 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 7-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tahrir Hamdi

Keyword(s):

Cultural Production ◽

Edward Said ◽

Contested Spaces ◽

Olive Trees ◽

Call To Prayer

Postcolonialism, profoundly influenced by the Palestinian scholar Edward Said, has until recently been oddly silent on Palestine, a topic that not only preoccupied Said's thinking and writing, but also inspired his theoretical ideas on imperialism, anti-colonial struggle and the worldliness and affiliations of the text and the critic. This theoretical silence on Palestine was, in fact, preceded by a historical, political, geographical, social and cultural contestation of all forms of Palestinian spaces that include not only dispossessing Palestinians of their land, but also building apartheid walls, destroying hundreds of thousands of olive trees, appropriating/stealing traditional Palestinian dishes and clothes, silencing Palestinian narratives and the Muslim call to prayer. This paper will argue that these contested spaces necessarily become sites of Palestinian cultural production, struggle and sumud.

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The Shultz Meeting with Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

Journal of Palestine Studies ◽

10.1525/jps.1988.17.4.00p0065x ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 160-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Edward Said ◽

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

Keyword(s):

Edward Said

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Studies of Islam, Economics, and Governance

American Journal of Islam and Society ◽

10.35632/ajis.v11i1.2454 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 38-70

Author(s):

Florence Eid

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Ford Foundation ◽

The United States ◽

The State ◽

Edward Said ◽

The Subject ◽

State Of Research ◽

Traditional Approaches ◽

Islamic Values

IntroductionThis paper is a report on the state of research in two areas of Islamicstudies: Islam and economics and Islam and governance. I researched andwrote it as part of my internship at the Ford Foundation during the summerof 1992. On Discourse. The study of Islam in the United States has moved far beyondthe traditional historical and philological methods. This is perhapsbest explained by the development of analytically rigorous social sciencemethods that have contributed to a better balance between the humanisticconcerns of the more traditional approaches and efforts at systematizingthe study of Islam and classifying it across boundaries of communities,religions, even epochs. This is said to have s t a d with the developmentof irenic attitudes towards Islam, which changed the direction of westemorientalist writings from indifference (at best) and often open hostility toand contempt of Islamic values (however they were understood) to phenomenologicalworks by scholars who saw the study of Islam as somethingto be taken seriously and for its own sake, which is best exemplifiedby Clifford Geertz's Islam Observed.The work of Edward Said contested this evolution, and the publicationof his Orientalism has been described as "a stick of dynamite"' that,despite its impact in mobilizing a reevaluation of the field, was unwarrantedin its pessimism. In any case, the field has continued to evolve,with the most powerful force moving it being the subject itself. Thephenomenological/orientalist approach, if we can point to one today, ...

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The Great Debate of the Two Intellectual Giants in Middle Eastern Studies of Postcolonial Era: A Comparative Study on the Schemata of Edward Said and Bernard Lewis

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1936350 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Nassef Manabilang Adiong

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

Middle Eastern ◽

Edward Said ◽

Middle Eastern Studies ◽

Great Debate

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