The Writing of Violence in the Middle East
Inflictions
Seiten
2012
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-4411-0630-8 (ISBN)
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-4411-0630-8 (ISBN)
From the domains of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness, and deception. It forms a record of voices, movements, and thought - experiments drawn from the inner circles of the Middle Eastern region.
Writing has come face-to-face with a most crucial juncture: to negotiate with the inescapable presence of violence. From the domains of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a powerful conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness, and deception. Beyond the narrow judgment of violence as a purely tragic reality, these writers (in states of exile, prison, martyrdom, and war) come to wager with the more elusive, inspiring, and even ecstatic dimensions that rest at the heart of a visceral universe of imagination. Covering complex and controversial thematic discussions, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh forms an extreme record of voices, movements, and thought-experiments drawn from the inner circles of the Middle Eastern region. By exploring the most abrasive writings of this vast cultural front, the book reveals how such captivating outsider texts could potentially redefine our understanding of violence and its now-unstoppable relationship to a dangerous age.
Writing has come face-to-face with a most crucial juncture: to negotiate with the inescapable presence of violence. From the domains of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a powerful conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness, and deception. Beyond the narrow judgment of violence as a purely tragic reality, these writers (in states of exile, prison, martyrdom, and war) come to wager with the more elusive, inspiring, and even ecstatic dimensions that rest at the heart of a visceral universe of imagination. Covering complex and controversial thematic discussions, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh forms an extreme record of voices, movements, and thought-experiments drawn from the inner circles of the Middle Eastern region. By exploring the most abrasive writings of this vast cultural front, the book reveals how such captivating outsider texts could potentially redefine our understanding of violence and its now-unstoppable relationship to a dangerous age.
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Assistant Professor of World Literature at New Jersey City University, USA. He is the author of The Chaotic Imagination: New literature and Philosophy of the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2010).
Series Foreword / Preface: Violence, East/West / Acknowledgements / 0. Zero-World Consciousness / 1. Threat: Writings of Betrayal / 2. Annihilation: Writings of Cruelty / 3. Sharpening: Writings of Evil / 4. Deception: Writings of Midnight / 5. Rage: Writings of Overthrow / 6. Assassination: Writings of War / 6.5. Interlude (of the factions, of the barriers) / Conclusion (Of Those Who Have Become Jagged): Reckonings of an Eastern Violence / Bibliography / Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.4.2012 |
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Reihe/Serie | Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4411-0630-8 / 1441106308 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4411-0630-8 / 9781441106308 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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