Mahmoud Darwish

Broschiertes Buch

Memory for Forgetfulness

August, Beirut, 1982

Übersetzer: Muhawi, Ibrahim

Beschreibung

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)? This title offers an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions.

Autor

Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was a Palestinian poet and writer, regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He published over thirty books of poetry during his life. Ibrahim Muhawi is coauthor and translator of Speak Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (California, 1988) and Mahmoud Darwish's Journal of an Ordinary Grief (Archipelago Books, 2010), for which he won the PEN Translation Prize. Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, and scholar. He has published novels and verse in both Arabic and English, and is currently a professor at New York University.

Produktdetails

• Literature of the Middle East
• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780520273047
• ISBN-10: 0520273044
• Artikelnr.: 36812844