 | Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish Subjects: Psychic trauma in literature; Violence in literature; Arab-Israeli conflict -- Literature and the conflict; Arabic literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Hebrew literature -- 20th c; This book addresses nineteenth through twenty-first century Arabic and Arab Jewish writing (Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Shimon Ballas, and Taha Husayn), showing that language interrupts is domestication into the forms of temporal and aesthetic coherency privileged in the monolingual state in West Asia. Sacks Jeffrey : Jeffrey Sacks is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. |
