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ISBN: 1927494303

ISBN13: 9781927494301

Wanting in Arabic

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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Fiction, 2014

Wanting in Arabic is a refusal of convenient silences, convenient stories. The author dwells on the contradictions of a transsexual poetics, in its attendant disfigurations of lyric, ghazal, l'ecriture feminine, and, in particular, her own sexed voice. Without a memory of her father's language, the questions her poems ask are those for a home known through photographs, for a language lost with childhood.

Braiding theoretical concerns with the ambivalences of sexed and raced identity, with profound romanticism, Wanting in Arabic attempts to traverse the fantasies of foundational loss and aggressive nostalgia in order to further a poetics of a conscious partiality of being, of generous struggle and comic rather than tragic misrecognition.

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Cool Transgender Poetry

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Wanting in Arabic is a really surprising book because it is about so many things like transgender and sexuality and war but is still interesting as poetry. What I like best about it is that even though the language could be difficult in places, the ideas do shine through. It seems like a really honest book by someone who has lived a lot.

beautiful poetry

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Trish Salah is a beautiful poet. At times the language is difficult, she's an academic, but her writing is the better for it. She is very evocative and expresses profound emotions.
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