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Memos from the Besieged City : Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability
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- Book Title
- Memos from the Besieged City : Lifelines for Cultural Sustainabil
- ISBN
- 9780804770507
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Memos from the Besieged City : Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Comparative Literature, General
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Series
- Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 15 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804770506
ISBN-13
9780804770507
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92576760
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Memos from the Besieged City : Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability
Subject
Comparative Literature, General
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
15 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2010-015071
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Djelal Kadir ranges with remarkable confidence and sureness of step across several continents and several centuries, offering a bracing challenge to Comparative Literature to rethink its history, its politics, and its future. Exceptionally original in conception, innovative in argumentation, and eloquent in style, Memos from the Besieged City takes on a moral urgency in addressing itself to an age of homeland insecurity and projections of power abroad, revealing an all too close linkage between American comparatism and a hegemonic hubris that academics may share even as they seek to oppose it."-David Damrosch, Harvard University, "Djelal Kadir ranges with remarkable confidence and sureness of step across several continents and several centuries, offering a bracing challenge to Comparative Literature to rethink its history, its politics, and its future. Exceptionally original in conception, innovative in argumentation, and eloquent in style, Memos from the Besieged City takes on a moral urgency in addressing itself to an age of homeland insecurity and projections of power abroad, revealing an all too close linkage between American comparatism and a hegemonic hubris that academics may share even as they seek to oppose it."--David Damrosch, Harvard University, "This important and original book will prove controversial and difficult to ignore. Kadir deals with apparently timeless issues while discussing, often pointedly and trenchantly, issues of cultural politics that are as immediate as the running trailers on the bottom of the cable news channels. He holds a multi-leveled conversation, addressing both specialists in the field and those same specialists in their embodiment of citizenship. This dual thrust constitutes the book's most important accomplishment and demonstrates the urgent necessity for the Comparative Literature he advocates."—Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Djelal Kadir ranges with remarkable confidence and sureness of step across several continents and several centuries, offering a bracing challenge to Comparative Literature to rethink its history, its politics, and its future. Exceptionally original in conception, innovative in argumentation, and eloquent in style, Memos from the Besieged City takes on a moral urgency in addressing itself to an age of homeland insecurity and projections of power abroad, revealing an all too close linkage between American comparatism and a hegemonic hubris that academics may share even as they seek to oppose it."—David Damrosch, Harvard University, "This important and original book will prove controversial and difficult to ignore. Kadir deals with apparently timeless issues while discussing, often pointedly and trenchantly, issues of cultural politics that are as immediate as the running trailers on the bottom of the cable news channels. He holds a multi-leveled conversation, addressing both specialists in the field and those same specialists in their embodiment of citizenship. This dual thrust constitutes the book's most important accomplishment and demonstrates the urgent necessity for the Comparative Literature he advocates."-Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Djelal Kadir ranges with remarkable confidence and sureness of step across several continents and several centuries, offering a bracing challenge to Comparative Literature to rethink its history, its politics, and its future. Exceptionally original in conception, innovative in argumentation, and eloquent in style,Memos from the Besieged Citytakes on a moral urgency in addressing itself to an age of homeland insecurity and projections of power abroad, revealing an all too close linkage between American comparatism and a hegemonic hubris that academics may share even as they seek to oppose it."--David Damrosch, Harvard University, "This important and original book will prove controversial and difficult to ignore. Kadir deals with apparently timeless issues while discussing, often pointedly and trenchantly, issues of cultural politics that are as immediate as the running trailers on the bottom of the cable news channels. He holds a multi-leveled conversation, addressing both specialists in the field and those same specialists in their embodiment of citizenship. This dual thrust constitutes the book's most important accomplishment and demonstrates the urgent necessity for the Comparative Literature he advocates."--Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dewey Decimal
809
Synopsis
This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature--the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers--at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik., Memos from the Besieged City argues for the institutional and cultural relevance of literary study through foundational figures, from the 1200s to today, who defied precarious circumstances to make significant contributions to literacy and civilization in the face of infelicitous human acts. Focusing on historically vital crossroads--Baghdad, Florence, Byzantium, Istanbul, Rome, Paris, New York, Mexico City, Jerusalem, Beijing, Stockholm, Warsaw--Kadir looks at how unconventional and nonconformist writings define literacy, culture, and intellectual commitment. Inspired by political refugee and literary scholar Erich Auerbach's path-breaking Mimesis , and informed by late twentieth-century ideological and methodological upheavals, the book reflects on literacy and dissidence at a moment when literary disciplines, canons, and theories are being reassessed under the pressure of globalization and transculturation. At the forefront of an ethical turn in the comparative analysis of cultures and their literary legacies, it reminds us of the best humanity can produce.
LC Classification Number
PN871
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