Wanting in Arabic by Salah, Trish

Wanting in Arabic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781927494301)

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Wanting in Arabic by Salah, Trish

Wanting in Arabic

$20.95
Wanting in Arabic by Salah, Trish

Wanting in Arabic

$20.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Trish Salah
ISBN-10: 1927494303
ISBN-13: 9781927494301
Publisher: Tsar Publications
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2013
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.30d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner

By Trish Salah
By Trish Salah
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Trish Salah lives and writes in Tkaronto and is associate professor of Gender Studies at Queen's University, which is located on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory. She is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning poetry collection, Wanting in Arabic (Mawenzi House), and of Lyric Sexology, Vol 1 (Metonymy Press). She is a Pushcart nominated poet and has work in recent issues of Mizna and Tripwire, and in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. She is editor of the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, and co-editor of special issues of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, on cultural production, and of Arc Poetry Magazine, featuring poetry by trans, Two-Spirit and non-binary writers.

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