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The Shahrazād of Sablakh Speaks in Many Tongues: Witnessing and Islamicate Cultural Memory in Samīr Naqqāsh's Shlūmū al-Kurdī wa-anā wa-l-zaman (Shlūmū al-Kurdī, Myself and Time).
- Source :
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Journal of Arabic Literature . 2023, Vol. 54 Issue 3/4, p384-411. 28p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Shlūmū al-kurdī wa-anā wa-l-zaman (Shlūmū al-Kurdī, Myself and Time) (2004) is the final novel of Iraqi-Jewish author Samīr Naqqāsh. Considering the text in light of the cultural politics of memory and articulation, this article posits the novel as a true fabrication of a fictionalized memoir. By thematizing aspects of speech, movement and scriptural ecumenism within an Islamicate cultural memory, the text simultaneously narrates and mourns the WWI-era social collapse of multiconfessional Sablakh in Iranian Kurdistan. The narration employs a modified, self-amplifying tripartite narrative structure and a self-sustaining momentum born of the looping of prophetic and traumatic temporalities; together, such structural moves enable a cascade of witnessing of a marginal(ized) site of loss. The text thus intervenes in officially sanctioned genealogies of loss and overcoming while crafting an affirmative Eastern Jewish self-in-community beyond the linguistic, geographic, and epistemological confines of Mizrahi identity within the State of Israel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00852376
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 3/4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Arabic Literature
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 173564929
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341491