{"product_id":"wanting-in-arabic-trish-salah-9781927494301","title":"Wanting in Arabic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Fiction, 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWanting in Arabic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBraiding theoretical concerns with the ambivalences of sexed and raced identity, with profound romanticism, \u003ci\u003eWanting in Arabic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Trish Salah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1927494303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781927494301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tsar Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lambda Literary Awards - Winner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trish Salah","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937490829567,"sku":"9781927494301","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a5abc0d4-bdb5-4825-86fa-a286603dfe3f.jpg?v=1681430383","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wanting-in-arabic-trish-salah-9781927494301","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}