Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, Al-Shidyaq to Darwish

by Jeffrey Sacks

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823264947
• ISBN13: 9780823264940
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"