"Decolonization and Form: Frantz Fanon, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Adania Shibli"
This lecture is the first in the Comparative Approaches to the Literatures of Africa, the Middle East, and the Global South (CALAMEGS) Spring 2019 lecture series.
CALAMEGS Lecture Series Presents: Jeff Sacks
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Jeff Sacks is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at the University of California,Riverside. His first book, Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish (New York: Fordham UP, 2015), was awarded the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association (2016). He is the author of numerous articles, most recently, "Against Simplicity: The Languages of Pain in Talal Asad and Etel Adnan," in Modern Language Notes, and "Poetic Theology: Paul and Form," in Political Theology, and he has translated a volume of poetry by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish,Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (New York: Archipelago, 2006). He is
presently writing two books: "For Decolonization: the Lyric Poem and theQuestion of Palestine," and "Simplicities: A Colonial Archive."
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Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies