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Ante body / Marwa Helal.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.E38527 A58 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helal, Marwa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects--Poetry.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Oppression (Psychology)--Poetry.
- Oppression (Psychology).
- Psychic trauma--Poetry.
- Psychic trauma.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 66 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nightboat Books, 2022.
- Summary:
- An incisive poetic sequence that tracks the relationship between migration and complex traumas in this unsparing critique of the unjust conditions that brought us the global pandemic. Ante body is a poetics of [un]rest. A project that started as an exploration of how the psychological impacts of migration and complex traumas manifest as autoimmune disease and grew into a critique of the ongoing unjust conditions that brought on the global pandemic. Continuing her use of the invented poetic form, the Arabic, and integrating Fred Moten's concept of "the ANTE," Helal creates an elliptical reading experience in which content and form interrogate the inner workings of patriarchy, capitalism, nationalism, and globalism.-- Publisher description.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliograpical references.
- Whiting Award, 2021
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781643621425
- 1643621424
- OCLC:
- 1267384931
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