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11%OFFDjelal Kadir - Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability - 9780804770507 - V9780804770507
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Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability

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Description for Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability Paperback. 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. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 408.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804770507
SKU
V9780804770507
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Djelal Kadir
Djelal Kadir is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University and founding president of the International American Studies Association. His books include Columbus and the Ends of the Earth (1992) and The Other Writing (1993)

Reviews for Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability
"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 ... Read more

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