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![]() ![]() It stopped over there, on the other side of the collective voice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Translated with an Introduction by Ibrahim Muhawi. In his Journal of an Ordinary Grief ( Yawmiyya:t al-Huzn al-?a:di), Darwish explains, "you realize that philosophically you exist but legally you do not" (xiii).Īll quotes (including footnotes *-***) are from Memory for Forgetfulness, August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmoud Darwish. ![]() Without identity papers and under Israeli rule, Darwish was vulnerable. Darwish's family.stole back into the homeland, but too late to be included in the census of the Palestinian Arabs who had remained in the country" (xii). Shortly thereafter "the newly formed Israel destroyed the village. In 1948 Darwish's family fled from Birwe in Upper Galilee to Lebanon. Also, among other things, it would be productive to read this along side of Jacques Rancière's The Names of History. That said, gendered constructions in this passage strike me as problematic. I am just beginning this moving and powerfully written book and am finding Darwish's work an extraordinary investigation into reading, writing, history, memory, forgetfulness, occupation, exile, identity, nation, violence. Darwish's book begins with an epigraph from Roland Barthes:Ĭ’est précisément parce que j‘oublie que je lis. ![]()
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