Mahmoud Darwish : the politics of mourning and catastrophe
Other Title(s)
محمود درويش : سياسات الرثاء و الكارثة
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Source
Issue
Vol. 2021, Issue 38 (31 Dec. 2021), pp.95-126, 32 p.
Publisher
Bethlehem University Office of the Deanship of Research
Publication Date
2021-12-31
Country of Publication
Palestine (West Bank)
No. of Pages
32
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This article examines the ways in which Mahmoud Darwish’s contrapuntal notion of memory, catastrophe, and mourning exhibit an aesthetic of freedom, intransigence and resistance.
Darwish’s intellectual and aesthetic project is primarily premised upon the pleasures and pitfalls of memory and catastrophe as a site of spatial and cultural resistance.
For Darwish, memory and catastrophe are not only about the absence and presence of geography and home, but they are also metaphorical in every way.
In The Presence of Absence (2011), Darwish argues that metaphors form a peculiar mode of geography and space.
Drawing on Edward Said’s notion of late style and Judith Butler’s argument on the politics of mourning, this article sets out to examine the ways in which Darwish’s Memory for Forgetfulness and In the Presence of Absence embody a radical form of aesthetic and intellectual praxis, writing against the grain and the politics of mourning.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abu Awdah, Taysir. 2021. Mahmoud Darwish : the politics of mourning and catastrophe. Bethlehem University Journal،Vol. 2021, no. 38, pp.95-126.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1337537
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abu Awdah, Taysir. Mahmoud Darwish : the politics of mourning and catastrophe. Bethlehem University Journal No. 38 (2021), pp.95-126.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1337537
American Medical Association (AMA)
Abu Awdah, Taysir. Mahmoud Darwish : the politics of mourning and catastrophe. Bethlehem University Journal. 2021. Vol. 2021, no. 38, pp.95-126.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1337537
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 124-126
Record ID
BIM-1337537