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Revolutions - by Hajer Mirwali (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Revolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame and pleasure.
- Author(s): Hajer Mirwali
- 113 Pages
- Poetry, Canadian
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Book Synopsis
Revolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame and pleasure. In an extended conversation with Mona Hatoum's artwork + and -, Revolutions asks how young Arab women - who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib or not 3aib, shameful or acceptable - make and unmake their identities. Working between a Palestinian and Iraqi poetics drawing from artists like Mahmoud Darwish and Naseer Shamma and a feminist Canadian poetics inspired by Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Nicole Brossard, Revolutions spirals and collapses as we turn and re-turn around its circles.
Review Quotes
"This collections weaves and interleaves such wonderful structural variety, offering a myriad of threads that swirl around a collision of cultures ... [Mirwali] writes of multiple points of departure and relationships to people, to individuals, to geographies and geopolitical crises; she writes of home, of hearth. She writes of the contradictions of where the heart may go and how one connects to the world, seeking solace and urgency, a connection to where part of her might always remain." --49th Shelf
"[Mirwali's] precise and careful use of language demonstrates a wisdom far beyond her years." -- All Lit Up
"Astonishing." --melanie brannagan frederiksen, The Winnipeg Free Press