Iterations of Loss : : Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish / / Jeffrey Sacks.
In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuri...
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