COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Volume 23 | Numbers 1 & 2 | 2003




Table of Contents


In Memoriam




Natalie Zemon Davis: Being Grateful to Edward Said

Linda Hutcheon: Requiem for Edward Said

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Memoriam: Edward W.Said

Ilan Pappe: A Tribute to Edward Said

Melanie Newton: Reflections on Edward Said: A Caribbean Perspective

Ania Looma: Remembering Said



Comparative (Post)Colonialisms Guest Edited by Waïl S. Hassan and Rebecca Saunders




Waïl S. Hassan and Rebecca Saunders: Introduction

Madeleine Dobie: Francophone Studies and the Linguistic Diversity of the Maghreb

Liam Connell: Modes of Marginality: Scottish Literature and the Uses of Postcolonial Theory

Ngugi wa Thiong'o: License to Write: Encounters with Censorship

Carl Niekerk: Rethinking a Problematic Constellation: Postcolonialism and its Germanic Contexts (Pramoedya Ananta Toer / Multatuli)

Brian T. Edwards: Preposterous Encounters: Interrupting American Studies with the (post)colonial, or Casablanca in the American Century

Adrian Otoiu: An Exercise in Fictional Liminality: Postcolonialism, Postcommunism, and Romania's Threshhold Generation

Lital Levy: Exchanging Words: Thematizations of Translation in Arabic Writing from Isr

Ipshita Chanda: The Tortoise and the Leopard, or the 'Post' colonial Muse

Ignacio Tofino-Quesada: Spanish Orientalism: Uses of the Past in Spain's Colonization in Africa



Contentions



Michael Grossberg: Is There a Crisis in Middle East Academic Publishing? The View from a History Journal Editor



New Directions in Palestinian Historiography Guest Edited by Issam Nassar




Issam Nassar: Remapping Palestine and the Palestinians: Decolonizing and Research

Elia Zureik: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for the Study of Palestinian Society

Jamil Hilal: Problematising Democracy in Palestine

Salim Tamari: Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City

Kimberly Katz: Legitimizing Jordan as the Holy Land: Papal Pilgrimages, 1964 and 2000

Rochelle Davis: Commemorating Education: Recollections of the Arab College in Jerusalem, 1918-1948

Sari Hanafi & Linda Tabar: Palestinian Globalized Elite and the Second Intifada

Tania Forte: Sifting People, Sorting Paper: Power, Knowledge, and the Constitution of Expertise on Palestinian history in Israel

Ilan Pappe: The Post-Territorial Dimensions of a Future Homeland in Israel and Palestine


Variorum




Homa Katouzian: Legitimacy and Succession in Iranian History

Firoozeh Papan-Matin: The Crisis of Identity in Rumi's Tale of the Reed

Eugene F. Irschick: Conversations in Tarangambadi: Caring for the Self in Early Eighteenth Century South India

Andrew Sartori: The Categorial Logic of a Colonial Nationalism: Swadeshi Bengal, 1904-1908

Sharmistha Gooptu: The Glory that Was: An Exploration of the Iconicity of New Theaters

Ali Riaz: God Willing: Politics and Ideology of Islamism in Bangladesh

Kamran Asdar Ali:>/b> Myths, Lies and Impotence: Structural Adjustment and Male Voice in Egypt

Agbenyega Adedze: In the Pursuit of Knowledge and Power: French Scientific Research in West Africa


Book Reviews




Ranajit Guha, History at the limit of world-history. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. By Haider A. Khan

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography. St. Antony's Series. Palgrave: Hampshire and New York, 2001. By Nasrin Rahimieh

Keya Ganguly, States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 200. By Sunaina Maira

As’ad Ghanem, The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000. New York: The State University of New York Press, 2001. By Ahmad Harb

Sukeshi Kamra, Bearing Witness: Partition, Independence, End of Raj. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. By Neela Bhattacharya Saxena

David R. Loy. A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. By Perle Besserman

Jeannie Suk, Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing: Cesaire, Glissant, Conde. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. By Nick Nesbitt

Gaurav Desai, Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library (Durham: Duke University Press). By Olakunle George

Alfred J. Lopez, Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. By Luís Madureira

Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, 'Algeria in Others' Languages. Cornell University Press, 2002. By Aida Bamia