Who Am I Without Exile?: On Mahmûd Darwîsh's Later Poetics of Exile

Yair Huri

doi:10.1111/j.1949-3606.2006.tb00026.x

Who Am I Without Exile? On Mahmûd Darwîsh's Later Poetics of Exile

Yair Huri

Department of Middle East Studies

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Who am I after these paths of exodus? I own a boulder that bears my name on a tall bluff overlooking what has come to an end. Seven hundred years escort me beyond the city walls. Time turns around in vain to save my past from a moment that gives birth to the history of my exile in others and in myself. Mahmûd Darwish, “Be a String, Water, to my Guitar”. Our eyes and ears refused obedience the princes of our senses proudly chose exile Zbigniew Herbert, “The Power of Taste”. Writing is impossible without some kind of exile Julia Kristeva.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	56-68
Number of pages	13
Journal	Domes : digest of Middle East studies
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-3606.2006.tb00026.x
State	Published - 1 Oct 2006

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Cultural Studies
History
Religious studies
Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Law

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