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SUMMARY:afikra Outline: Memory in Ruins
DESCRIPTION:Join afikra as they interview assistant professor of Arabic language and literature and author of “Memory in Ruins: The Poetics of Atlal in Lebanese Wartime and Postwar Production” Yasmine Khayyat on the afikra Outline series. \nThis dissertation examines the convergence of ruins and memory. It is an inquiry into the role ruins play in indexing\, impeding and enabling memories of war through literary and non-literary media. At the heart of this study is an attempt to explore the multivalent nature of war memories in Lebanon–their inscription\, mediation\, and transformation–through the framework of ruins. Drawing on the classical Arabic literary tradition of contemplating ruins allows me to analyze the way ruins are interpreted and represented in contemporary Lebanese vernacular\, literary\, museological and poetic matrixes of memory. Through their evocation of the past via its ruin-traces\, the modern works under examination effectively transform the poetics of nostalgia to new affective and alternative imaginary spaces. It is precisely in the creative tension between the traditional and the modern\, the real and the imagined ruins\, where a contemporary poetics of memory lies.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/afikra-outline-memory-in-ruins/
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SUMMARY:Banipal Book Club: 'Things I Left Behind\,' by Shada Mustafa\, tr. Nancy Roberts
DESCRIPTION:This is young Palestinian author Shada Mustafa’s debut novel – a free-flowing narrative that interrogates\, in short\, direct sentences\, the memories of growing up\, falling in love\, that keep forcing themselves out to be reckoned with. Through ceaseless questioning\, and the seemingly random revisiting of each of the four “things” she has left behind\, the narrator redeems her life from the inexplicable pain and tragic anguish that was her childhood in an occupied and divided land and family. \nIn so doing\, Mustafa creates a unique writing style while at the same time allowing the narrative its original\, cathartic function\, liberating herself from her past\, and finding her true self. \nWhy was she always having to cross the Qalandia checkpoint to see her dad or her mom? Why did they divorce? Why was her mom angry? How could she make her happy? Why was her dad a different man when he came out of the occupier’s prison? What was more important\, the cause or the people? The questions become more urgent when she becomes a student and falls in love. \nThis short novel\, original in its subject as much as its narrative technique\, has been singled out from the start by being shortlisted for the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Authors.
URL:https://arablit.org/event/banipal-book-club-things-i-left-behind-by-shada-mustafa-tr-nancy-roberts/
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