The Writing of Violence in the Middle East: Inflictions Contributor(s): Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472529448 ISBN-13: 9781472529442 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Religion | Islam - Rituals & Practice - Religion | Religion, Politics & State |
Dewey: 809.895 |
Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thou |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Writing has come face-to-face with a most crucial juncture: to negotiate with the inescapable presence of violence. From the domains of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a powerful conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness, and deception. Beyond the narrow judgment of violence as a purely tragic reality, these writers (in states of exile, prison, martyrdom, and war) come to wager with the more elusive, inspiring, and even ecstatic dimensions that rest at the heart of a visceral universe of imagination. Covering complex and controversial thematic discussions, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh forms an extreme record of voices, movements, and thought-experiments drawn from the inner circles of the Middle Eastern region. By exploring the most abrasive writings of this vast cultural front, the book reveals how such captivating outsider texts could potentially redefine our understanding of violence and its now-unstoppable relationship to a dangerous age. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak: - Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Assistant Professor of World Literature at New Jersey City University, USA. |