scholarly journals Malcolm Lowry no ocaso do Império

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-203
Author(s):  
Nair María Anaya Ferreira ◽  
Mara Gonzalez Bezerra ◽  
Andréa Cesco
Keyword(s):  
Edward Said ◽  
Malcolm Lowry

Este artigo propõe uma leitura de À sombra do Vulcão, de Malcolm Lowry, centrada na importância da história moderna e na presença do Império Britânico na narrativa do último dia de Geoffrey Firmin. Seguindo a noção de uma “leitura contrapontística” dos textos canônicos ingleses, formulada por Edward Said, discuto que, por ter nascido na Índia, o Cônsul (britânico) não consegue ter um sentido de pertencimento à Grã Bretanha, senão que se encontra em uma situação intersticial e liminar que antecipa a ruptura entre uma identidade imperial e uma identidade nacional, uma das maiores problemáticas abordadas nos estudos teóricos atuais sobre a identidade (especialmente nos estudos pós-coloniais). A partir desta perspectiva, a ênfase na situação imperial permite uma leitura que rompe com as interpretações do México como um “paraíso infernal” que perpetuou o estereótipo do nosso país mesmo em estudos críticos sobre o romancista.

scholarly journals Malcolm Lowry en el ocaso del imperio

2013 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Nair María Anaya Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Edward Said ◽  
Malcolm Lowry ◽  
Identidad Nacional

Este artículo propone una lectura de Bajo el volcán, de MalcolmLowry, centrada en la importancia de la historia moderna y lapresencia del Imperio Británico en la narración del último díade Geoffrey Firmin. Siguiendo la noción de una “lectura contrapuntística” de los textos canónicos ingleses formulada por Edward Said, planteo que al haber nacido en la India, el Cónsul (británico) no logra tener un sentido de pertenencia a la Gran Bretaña, sino que se encuentra en una situación intersticial y liminal que anticipa la ruptura entre una identidad imperial y una identidad nacional, una de las problemáticas mayores abordadas en los estudios teóricos actuales sobre la identidad (especialmente en los estudios poscoloniales). Desde esta perspectiva, el énfasis en situación imperial permite una lectura que rompe con las interpretaciones de México como un “paraíso infernal” que ha perpetuado el estereotipo de nuestro país incluso en estudios críticos sobre el novelista.

Orientalist Speech-acts and Israeli Middle East Studies: Cautions and Criticisms of Edward Said Beyond the Battle of Ideas

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-237
Author(s):  
Eyal Clyne
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Academic World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Middle East Studies

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.

Edward Said: Prophet of Justice

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-145
Author(s):  
Naim S. Ateek
Keyword(s):  
Edward Said

Edward Said, Postcolonialism and Palestine's Contested Spaces

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-25 ◽  
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.

The Shultz Meeting with Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Said ◽  
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
Keyword(s):  
Edward Said

Studies of Islam, Economics, and Governance

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, ...

Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 365
Author(s):  
Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Edward Said
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