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The Writing of Violence in the Middle East

Inflictions

Hardcover

Published: 23rd February 2012
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This is an intense exploration of Middle Eastern writers of violence and their experiments with ideas of cruelty, deception, madness, rage, war, annihilation, and evil. 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. This series interrupts standardized discourses involving the Islamicate world by introducing creative and emerging ideas. The incisive works included in this series provide a counterpoint to the reigning canons of theory, theology, philosophy, literature, and criticism through investigations of vast experiential typologies - such as violence, mourning, vulnerability, tension, and humour - in light of contemporary Islamicate thought.

Series Foreword
Preface: Violence, East/West
Acknowledgements
Zero-World Consciousness
Threat: Writings of Betrayal
Annihilation: Writings of Cruelty
Sharpening: Writings of Evil
Deception: Writings of Midnight
Rage: Writings of Overthrow
Assassination: Writings of War 6.5. Interlude (Of the Factions, of the Barriers)
Conclusion (Of Those Who Have Become Jagged): Reckonings of an Eastern Violence
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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ISBN: 9781441106308
ISBN-10: 1441106308
Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle East & Islamic Thought
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 224
Published: 23rd February 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.522