Mahmoud Darwish: The Politics of Mourning and Catastrophe  <span class="so-article-trans-title" dir="auto"> Translated title: محمود درويش: سياسات الرثاء والكارثة </span>

Abu Odeh, Tayseer

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Mahmoud Darwish: The Politics of Mourning and Catastrophe Translated title: محمود درويش: سياسات الرثاء والكارثة

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Author(s): Tayseer Abu Odeh تيسير أبو عودة

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Keywords: Mahmoud Darwish, poetry, memory, mourning, catastrophe, resistance, exile, الذاكرة, الرثاء, النكبة, المقاومة, المنفى

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This article examines the ways in which Mahmoud Darwish's contrapuntal notion of memory, catastrophe, and mourning exhibit an aesthetic of freedom, intransigence and resistance. Darwish's intellectual and aesthetic project is primarily premised upon the pleasures and pitfalls of memory and catastrophe as a site of spatial and cultural resistance. For Darwish, memory and catastrophe are not only about the absence and presence of geography and home, but they are also metaphorical in every way. In The Presence of Absence (2011), Darwish argues that metaphors form a peculiar mode of geography and space. Drawing on Edward Said's notion of late style and Judith Butler's argument on the politics of mourning, this article sets out to examine the ways in which Darwish's Memory for Forgetfulness and In the Presence of Absence embody a radical form of aesthetic and intellectual praxis, writing against the grain and the politics of mourning.

يسعى هذا المقال إلى تحليل الأساليب التي يعالجها المفهوم الطباقي للذاكرة والكارثة والرثاء في أعمال محمود درويش، والتي يجسد درويش من خلالها شكلاً جمالياً للحرية والصمود والرفض. يتكىء مشروع محمود درويش بصورة أساسية على ملذات ومعضات الهوية والكارثة كمصدر للمقاومة الثقافية والزمكانية. فالذاكرة والكارثة لدى درويش لا تقتص ا رن فقط على غياب وحضور الجغ ا رفيا والوطن؛ ولكن يبيّن درويش أن ،» في حضرة الغياب « تشكلان استعارة وظيفية في كثير من الأحيان. وفي كتاب الاستعا ا رت تجسّد شكلاً غ ا رئبياً؟؟ للجغ ا رفيا وفضاء الجغ ا رفيا. وبناء على مفهوم الأسلوب المتأخر لدى إدوارد سعيد، وطروحات جوديث بتلر عن سياسات الرثاء، يسعى هذا المقال ألى معاينة الوسائل التي نموذجاً ا رديكالياً للتشابك الثقافي، » في حضرة الغياب « وكتاب » ذاكرة للنسيان « يجسد من خلالها كتاب والكتابة ضد التيار، وسياسات الرثاء.

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Abu Odeh Tayseer أبو عودة تيسير

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Publication date (Print): 1 January 2021

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Pages: 95-126

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Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Al-Ahliyya Amman University

أستاذ مساعد في الألأدب المقارن، جامعة عمان الألأهلية

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Keywords: poetry,الذاكرة,mourning,resistance,الرثاء,memory,Mahmoud Darwish,exile,catastrophe,المنفى,النكبة,المقاومة

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[1] Abdel Nasser, Tahia. “Between Exile and Elegy, Palestine and Egypt: Mound Barghouti's Poetry and Memoirs.” Journal of Arabic Literature, vol. 45, no. 2-3, 2014, pp. 244-64.

[2] Badawi, MM A critical introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 1975.

[3] Barghouthi, Mourid. I Saw Ramallah. Translated by Ahdaf Soueif, Anchor Books, 2003.

[4] Butler, Judith. Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence. Verso, 2006.

[5] Butler, Judith. “What Shall We Do without Exile?”: Said and Darwish Address the Future.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, vol. 32, 2012, pp. 30-54.

[6] Darwish, Mahmoud. If I Were Another. Translated by Fady Joudah, Macmillan, 2009.

[7] Darwish, Mahmoud. In the Presence of Absence. Translated by Sinan Antoon, Archipelago, 2009.

[8] Darwish, Mahmoud. Memory for Forgetfulness, 1982. Translated by Ibrahim Muhawi, University of California Press, 1995.

[9] Darwish, Mahmoud. The Butterfly's Burden: Poems. Trans. Fady Joudah, Copper Canyon, 2007.

[10] Eng, David L., and David Kazanjian, editors. Loss: The Politics of Mourning. University of Berkeley Press, 2003.

[11] Gross, Terry. “Remembering Israeli Author and Peace Activist Amos Oz.” NPR, 4 Jan. 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/01/04/682168487/remembering-israeli-author-and-peace-activist-amos-oz. Accessed 30 Feb. 2021.

[12] Hamdi, Tahrir. “Darwish's Geography: Space, Place and Identity under Construction.” Interventions, no. 19, 2016, pp. 238-257.

[13] Harlow, Barbara. Resistance Literature. Methuen, 1987.

[14] Kanafani, Ghassan. Men in the Sun. Translated by Hillary Kilpatrick, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1999.

[15] Khalidi, Rashid. Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East. Beacon Press, 2013.

[16] Loomba, Ania. Colonialism-postcolonialism. Routledge, 1998.

[17] Nur, Masalha. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem. Pluto Press, 2003.

[18] Pappé, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. One World Publications, 2006.

[19] Ricoeur, Paul. Memory, History, Forgetting. Translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer, The University of Chicago Press, 2004.

[20] Sa'di, Ahmad, and Lila Abu-Lughod, editors. Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. Columbia University Press, 2007.

[21] Sadie, Stanley. The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music. Macmillan, 1988.

[22] Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. Knopf, 1994.

[23] Said, Edward. On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain. Pantheon, 2006.

[24] “On Mahmoud Darwish.” Grand Street, no. 48, 1994, pp.112.

[25] Saloul, Ihab. Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination Telling Memories. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

[26] Verhoeff, Nanna. The West in Early Cinema After the Beginning. Amsterdam University Press, 2006.

[27] Williams, Patrick. “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom.” Interventions, vol. 14, no. 1, 2012, pp. 24-36.

[28] Williams, Patrick, and Anna Ball. “Where is Palestine?” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, no. 50, 2014, pp. 127-133.