The Allure of Counterpoint: History and Reconciliation in the Writing of Edward Said and Assia Djebar

Lachman, Kathryn

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“…The notion of narrative counterpoint is more capacious than that of equilibrium. Counterpoint “promises no overarching resolution … [but] values the dynamic interplay of tensions and contradictions”(Lachman, 2010: 167). Moreover, the harmony of counterpoint does not necessarily mean harmoniousness (De Groot, 2005: 222); rather, it covers a wide spectrum that ranges from the classic counterpoint of Bach to the atonal counterpoint of Schoenberg.…”

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Plotting stories after war: Toward a methodology for negotiating identity

Khoury

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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Identity is an important factor in international conflicts. As it is a crucial part of the problem, some scholars argue, national identity should be an important part of the solution. Parties to the conflict, they recommend, should negotiate their national identities so as to reach a “narrative equilibrium” that will allow them to overcome national stereotypes, build trust, and sustain peaceful relations in the future. This article evaluates not the merits of these negotiations, but the tools that social scientists have employed to analyze them. Its main purpose, therefore, is methodological. It argues that attempts to theorize the negotiation of identity fall short of their goal because they focus heavily on the notion of negotiation and very little on the concept of identity. To remedy this shortcoming, the article turns to the structural theories of narrative to conceptualize the negotiation of identity as a negotiation of literary plots. It argues that the negotiation of identity is the attempt to move away from two mutually exclusive romantic plots, and toward tragic, comic, or satiric plots in counterpoint. The introduction of plots, the article concludes, provides important insights that help theorize the negotiation of identity in post-conflict scenarios.

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“… 7. Edward Said used the idea of counterpoint when he urged Palestinians and Israelis to re-imagine their histories and to “engage and accommodate one another contrapuntally, to recognize the connections and contradictions between their respective histories” (Lachman, 2010: 167). …”

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Khoury

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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Resurfacing Symptomatic Reading: Contrapuntal Memory and Postcolonial Method inThe Remains of the Day

Thakkar¹

2017

Postcolon. Lit. inq

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This essay onThe Remains of the Dayand modes of reading takes as its starting point the novel’s historical setting of July 1956, which coincides with the beginning of the Suez crisis. Although the crisis never explicitly registers in the narrative, various moments of imperial affirmation and anxiety suggest that it may have the status of a symptom. I read with and against this supposition. In the essay’s first section, I show how the repression of imperial crisis in Stevens’s narrative is entangled with his memories of fascist appeasement and complicity. Prompted by the text’s pervasive and self-conscious interest in Freudian figures of memory—its untimeliness and displacements—the second part argues thatThe Remains of the Dayincorporates the symptom as an aesthetic and historical strategy in order to itself theorize a postcolonial symptomatology. The novel thus helps us complicate the proposition that symptomatic reading is something critics do to texts and suggests, in its allegory of symptomatic reading, the contours of a postcolonial interpretive method.

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The Counterpoint Music of the Exile in Fulvio Tomizza’sLa ragazza di Petrovia

Deganutti

2016

Romance Studies

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The Allure of Counterpoint: History and Reconciliation in the Writing of Edward Said and Assia Djebar

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

Plotting stories after war: Toward a methodology for negotiating identity

Plotting stories after war: Toward a methodology for negotiating identity

Resurfacing Symptomatic Reading: Contrapuntal Memory and Postcolonial Method inThe Remains of the Day

The Counterpoint Music of the Exile in Fulvio Tomizza’sLa ragazza di Petrovia

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