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



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Autore: Darwīsh Maḥmūd Visualizza persona
Titolo: Memory for forgetfulness [[electronic resource] ] : August, Beirut, 1982 / / Mahmoud Darwish ; translated, with an introduction by Ibrahim Muhawi Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95459-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786880703321
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Serie: Literature of the Middle East.