The Writing of Violence in the Middle East: Inflictions

by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Book Overview

Writing has come face-to-face with a most crucial juncture: to negotiate with the inescapable presence of violence. From the domains of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a powerful conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness, and deception. Beyond the narrow judgment of violence as a purely tragic reality, these writers (in states of exile, prison, martyrdom, and war) come to wager with the more elusive,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472529448
• ISBN13: 9781472529442
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"