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.
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