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. Reading the
late lyric poetry of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in
relation to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, Sacks reconsiders
the nineteenth century Arabic nahda and its relation to
colonialism, philology, and the European Enlightenment. He argues
that this event is one of catastrophic loss, wherein the past
suddenly appears as if it belonged to another time. Reading
al-Shidyaq’s al-Saq ‘ala al-saq (1855) and the legacies to
which it points in post-1948 writing in Arabic, Hebrew, and French,
Sacks underlines a displacement and relocation of the Arabic word
adab and its practice, offering a novel contribution to Arabic and
Middle East Studies, critical theory, poetics, aesthetics, and
comparative literature. Drawing on writings of Jacques Derrida,
Walter Benjamin, Avital Ronell, Judith Butler, Theodor Adorno, and
Edward W. Said, Iterations of Loss shows that language interrupts
its pacification as an event of aesthetic coherency, to suggest
that literary comparison does not privilege a renewed giving of
sense but gives place to a new sense of relation.
General
| Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2015 |
| First published: |
2016 |
| Authors: |
Jeffrey Sacks
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth
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| Pages: |
368 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8232-6494-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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| LSN: |
0-8232-6494-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780823264940 |
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