Iterations of loss : mutilation and aesthetic form, Al-Shidyaq to Darwish / Jeffrey Sacks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sacks, Jeffrey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma in literature.

Violence in literature.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Literature and the conflict.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Arabic literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Arabic literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 347 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Summary:

In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Shimon Ballas, and Taha Husayn, Sacks demonstrates the reiterated incursion of loss into the time of life-losses that language declines to mourn. Language occurs as the iteration of loss, confounding its domestication in the form of the monolingual state in the Arabic nineteenth century's fallout. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: loss

Citation

Philologies

Excursus: names

Repetition

Literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823264940

0823264947

9780823264957

0823264955

OCLC:

889666459