Iterations of Loss Iterations of Loss mutilation and aesthetic form, al-shidyaq to darwish Jeffrey Sacks fordham university press New York 2015 this book is made possible by a collaborative grant from the andrew w. mellon foundation. Copyright © 2015 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Visit us online at www.fordhampress.com. The image of the painting by Ahmed Cherkaoui that appears as a frontispiece to this book and on its cover is reproduced with the permission of Hassan Ezzaim, Director of Fondation ONA (Rabat). Passages that appear in Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of this book have been published in diacritics 37.4 (2007) and are reproduced here with the permission of Johns Hopkins University Press. 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Iterations of loss : mutilation and aesthetic form, Al-Shidyaq to Darwish / Jeffrey Sacks. — First edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-6494-0 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8232-6495-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Psychic trauma in literature. 2. Violence in literature. 3. Arab-Israeli conflict— Literature and the conflict. 4. Arabic literature—19th century—History and criticism. 5. Arabic literature—20th century—History and criticism. 6. Hebrew literature—20th century—History and criticism. I. Title. PJ7519.P78S33 2014 892.7’09—dc23 2014030502 Printed in the United States of America 17 16 15 5 4 3 2 1 First edition for Leah, Leila, Bella contents List of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Note on Translation and Transliteration xv Introduction: Loss 1 1. Citation 23 2. Philologies 77 Excursus: Names 146 3. Repetition 159 4. Literature 197 Notes 227 Bibliography 295 Index 341 abbreviations A Mahmoud Darwish. Ahada ‘ashara kawkaban. 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