Memory for forgetfulness [[electronic resource] ] : August, Beirut, 1982 / / Mahmoud Darwish ; translated, with an introduction by Ibrahim Muhawi

• Autore: Darwīsh Maḥmūd
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 182 pages)
• Disciplina: 956.9204/4
• Soggetto topico: POETRY / General
• Soggetto geografico: Lebanon History Israeli intervention, 1982-1985 Personal narratives, Palestinian; Beirut (Lebanon) History
• Soggetto non controllato: 1982 israeli invasion; arabic literature; bitter rivals; conflict; engaging; fate; good vs evil; hardship; heroism; historical dimensions; historical; history; homeland; hostilities; human struggles; intense; invasion; lebanon; life lessons; literature; men at war; middle east history; palestine; poems; poetry collection; poetry; political; politics; power struggle; prominent poets; prose poems; resistance; revolutionaries; shelling of beirut; spiritual; tragic; violence; war ravaged streets; war; warriors; world politics
• Altri autori: MuhawiIbrahim <1937->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Memory for Forgetfulness -- Chapter I
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Memory for forgetfulness
• ISBN: 0-520-95459-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817439203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literature of the Middle East.