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Memory For Forgetfulness

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One of the Arab world’s greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). “Memory for Forgetfulness” is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage. Ibrahim Muhawi’s translation beautifully renders Darwish’s testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity. Sinan Antoon’s foreword, written expressly for this edition, sets Darwish’s work in the context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years.

Artikelnummer: 20919 Categorie: Tag:
Subtitel: August, Beirut, 1982
Auteur: Darwish, Mahmoud
Jaar: 2013
ISBN: 9780520273047
Pagina's: 224
Taal: English
Uitgever: University of California Press
Uitgever stad: Berkeley
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