Jeffrey Sacks: Poeticality, Gebunden
Poeticality
- In Refusal of Settler Life
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- Verlag:
- Fordham University Press, 01/2026
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781531512323
- Artikelnummer:
- 12253275
- Umfang:
- 336 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 6.1.2026
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Klappentext
"Will you not memorize a little poetry to halt the slaughter?" the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote. Darwish's poetic statement points to world-evacuating and genocidal violences ---in a triangulation of Palestine, Iraq, and the American settler state --- as his language recalls us to a sonority in utterance and acts of refusal in collective form. Through readings of Arabic and Arab poetry, art, translation, and philosophy, Jeffrey Sacks illumines an indetermined, non-accumulative, non-propertied manner of lingual doing --- across post-Ottoman topographies and states, and in excess of any single language---where language is a practice in sociality, the social is indistinct from the ontological, and being is a poetic mode --- what this book calls "poeticality."
Poeticality studies the Lebanese-American poet and painter Etel Adnan, the Iraqi poet and translator Khālid al-Maʿālī, philosophers in the Arabic peripatetic tradition, and writings of Karl Marx, Paul Celan, Walter Benjamin, and others, to demonstrate a sense of form wholly other than what is advanced in self-determined social existence, linguistic self-understanding, and philosophical self-representation --- a manner of address and a social pose, which Sacks summarizes under the heading "settler life."
Settler life --- a form of life, a practice of reading, and an asymmetric distribution of social destruction---asserts itself as a generalized and regulating attack upon Black and Indigenous life, and upon all forms of nonwhite, non-Christian, non-heteronormative existence. "Everything is in the language we use," the Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier has written. This book --- learning from Long Soldier's observation and with Darwish's sense of the poetic---affirms the demand for Indigenous sovereignty, in Palestine, in Turtle Island, and elsewhere, a demand which, through the collective acts occasioned in it, decomposes and deposes all sovereign forms and all stately legalities, in refusal of settler life.
