The Shahrazād of Sablakh Speaks in Many Tongues
Witnessing and Islamicate Cultural Memory in Samīr Naqqāsh’s Shlūmū al-Kurdī wa-anā wa-l-zaman (Shlūmū al-Kurdī, Myself and Time)
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Shlūmū al-kurdī wa-anā wa-l-zaman (Shlūmū al-Kurdī, Myself and Time) (2004) is the final novel of Iraqi-Jewish author Samīr Naqqāsh. Considering the text in light of the cultural politics of memory and articulation, this article posits the novel as a true fabrication of a fictionalized memoir. By thematizing aspects of speech, movement and scriptural ecumenism within an Islamicate cultural memory, the text simultaneously narrates and mourns the WWI-era social collapse of multiconfessional Sablakh in Iranian Kurdistan. The narration employs a modified, self-amplifying tripartite narrative structure and a self-sustaining momentum born of the looping of prophetic and traumatic temporalities; together, such structural moves enable a cascade of witnessing of a marginal(ized) site of loss. The text thus intervenes in officially sanctioned genealogies of loss and overcoming while crafting an affirmative Eastern Jewish self-in-community beyond the linguistic, geographic, and epistemological confines of Mizrahi identity within the State of Israel.
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The Shahrazād of Sablakh Speaks in Many Tongues
Witnessing and Islamicate Cultural Memory in Samīr Naqqāsh’s Shlūmū al-Kurdī wa-anā wa-l-zaman (Shlūmū al-Kurdī, Myself and Time)
In: Journal of Arabic LiteratureSearch for other papers by Rachel Green in
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Abstract
Shlūmū al-kurdī wa-anā wa-l-zaman (Shlūmū al-Kurdī, Myself and Time) (2004) is the final novel of Iraqi-Jewish author Samīr Naqqāsh. Considering the text in light of the cultural politics of memory and articulation, this article posits the novel as a true fabrication of a fictionalized memoir. By thematizing aspects of speech, movement and scriptural ecumenism within an Islamicate cultural memory, the text simultaneously narrates and mourns the WWI-era social collapse of multiconfessional Sablakh in Iranian Kurdistan. The narration employs a modified, self-amplifying tripartite narrative structure and a self-sustaining momentum born of the looping of prophetic and traumatic temporalities; together, such structural moves enable a cascade of witnessing of a marginal(ized) site of loss. The text thus intervenes in officially sanctioned genealogies of loss and overcoming while crafting an affirmative Eastern Jewish self-in-community beyond the linguistic, geographic, and epistemological confines of Mizrahi identity within the State of Israel.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 257 | 110 | 11 |
| Full Text Views | 16 | 10 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 91 | 69 | 0 |