The Writing of Violence in the Middle East Inflictions

by Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak

• ISBN13: 9781441106308
• ISBN10: 1441106308
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Writing has come face-to-face with a most crucial juncture: to negotiate with the inescapable presence of violence. Rooted in the domain 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 violent universe of imagination. Covering complex and controversial thematic discussions, Jason Mohaghegh forms an extremely compelling collection of voices, movements, and schools of thought drawn from the inner circles of the contemporary Islamic world.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword \ Preface: Violence, East/West \ Acknowledgements \ 0. Zero-World Consciousness \ 1. Threat: Writings of Betrayal \ 2. Annihilation: Writings of Cruelty \ 3. Sharpening: Writings of Evil \ 4. Deception: Writings of Midnight \ 5. Rage: Writings of Overthrow \ 6. Assassination: Writings of War \ 6.5. Interlude (Of the Factions, of the Barriers) \ 7. Conclusion (Of Those Who Have Become Jagged): Reckonings of an Eastern Violence \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index