Feverish Souls: Archives, Identity, and Trauma in <i>Fihris</i> and <i>Ḥiṣn Al-Turāb</i>

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Author(s): Mahmoud Abdelhamid M. A. Khalifa

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Keywords: trauma archives, collateral damage, Ḥiṣn al-turāb , identity, subaltern, power

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[1] 'Abd-al-Latīf, Ahmad. Ḥiṣn al-turāb: Ḥikāyat 'ā'ilah Mūrīskīyah: Riwāyah. Dār al-'yn lil-Nashr, 2018. al-Qāḍī, Wadād. “Scholars and their books: a peculiar Islamic view from the fifth/eleventh century (presidential address).” Journal of the American Oriental Society 124 (2004): 627-640.

[2] Antoon, Sinan. Fihris. Manshurat al-Jamal, 2016.

[3] Antoon, Sinan. The Book of Collateral Damage. Yale University Press, 2019.

[4] Asad, Talal. Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason. Columbia University Press, 2018.

[5] Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Penguin Classics, 2014.

[6] Baker Jr, Houston A. “Intuiting archive: Notes for a post-trauma poetics.” African American Review 49, no. 1 (2016): 1–4.

[7] Bakhtin, Mikhail, and Wayne C. Booth. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics. Edited by Caryl Emerson. University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

[8] Boulter, Jonathan. Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.

[9] Brown, Caroline. “Memory, identity and the archival paradigm: introduction to the special issue.” Archival Science 13, no. 2–3 (2013): 85–93.

[10] Elimelekh, Geula. “Sinan Antoon's Fihris: an index of two minds seeking one nation.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2019): 1–19.

[11] Farge, Arlette. The Allure of the Archives. Yale University Press, 2013.

[12] Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Vultures. Vol. 5019. Basic books, 1973.

[13] Moller, Violet. The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities. Pan Macmillan, 2019.

[14] Said, Edward W. Beginnings: Intention and Method. Granta books, 1997.

[15] Schimmel, Annemarie. The Poets' Geography. No. 2. Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2000.

[16] Schwartz, Joan M., and Terry Cook. “Archives, records, and power: the making of modern memory.” Archival Science vol 2, no. 1–2 (2002): 1–19.

[17] Steedman, Carolyn. Dust: The Archive and Cultural History. Rutgers University Press, 2002.

[18] Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the subaltern speak? Marxism and the interpretation of culture. C. Nelson and L. Grossberg.” Urbana, University of Illinois Press (1988): 271–313.

[19] Voss, Paul J., and Marta L. Werner. “Toward a poetics of the archive: introduction.” Studies in the Literary Imagination vol 32 no 1 (1999): 1.