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184735
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This article argues that when poetic practice in Syria turned to a register of modernity, many of its idioms darkened to a poetics of trauma and catastrophe. By highlighting a Syrian manifesto for the poetics of catastrophe and taking two poets who stylistically stand at polar opposites, I aim to show the diversity of forms in which Syrian witness poetry came into being and set it in a larger framework of efforts to anthologise and globalise twentieth century poetry from sites of violent political conflict. In doing so, I also trace the literary historical trajectories that informed its making in Syria and continued to steer its course well after 2011. Aside from original poetry, the ecosystem of the culture of catastrophe includes critical discourse, novels, cinema, media products, and literary translation. I will address some, not all, of the elements in this repertoire as they relate to poetic production.
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184731
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This special issue hopes to deepen the conversation on contemporary Syrian culture by fleshing out a long literary past that feeds into literary production in the present. Treating Syrian literature as a rich tradition of styles, genres, tropes, and sensibilities is not, we claim, our own wilful confection, but rather a fact borne out by the creative work of Syrian writers. This work not only disengages from the brutality and vapidity of cultural life under the Baathist regime, but also creates continuities and literary linkages that resist inundation in the present by revisiting forgotten touchstones, putting in place alternative canons of reading, and re-examining aesthetic tastes in wake of the ongoing crisis. It is our express conviction that Syrian literature should be examined with reference and regard to internal dynamics and autonomous modes of engagement with diverse literary and historical worlds rather than as determined by regime violence. This special issue highlights (r)evolutions in forms, genres, and themes over a long period as evidence for the relative autonomy of the Syrian literary project.
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