Mahmoud Darwish: The Politics of Mourning and Catastrophe - محمود درويش: سياسات الرثاء والكارثة

This article examines the ways in which Mahmoud Darwish's contrapuntal notion of memory, catastrophe, and mourning exhibit an aesthetic freedom, intransigence resistance. intellectual project is primarily premised upon pleasures pitfalls memory catastrophe as a site spatial cultural For Darwish, are not only about absence presence geography home, but they also metaphorical every way. In The Presence Absence (2011), Darwish argues that metaphors form peculiar mode space. Drawing on Edward Said's late style Judith Butler's argument politics mourning, this sets out to examine Memory for Forgetfulness embody radical praxis, writing against grain mourning.