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Disbound : Poems
Author
Title
Disbound : Poems / Hajar Hussaini.
ISBN
9781609388683
9781609388676
Publication
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2022
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
Hajar Hussaini's poems in Disbound scrutinize the social, political, and historical traces inherited from one's language. The traces she finds--the flow of international commodities implied in a plosive consonant, an image of the world's nations convening to reject the full stop--retrieve a personal history between countries (Afghanistan and the United States) and languages (Persian and English) that has been constantly disrupted and distorted by war, governments, and media. Hussaini sees the subjectivity emerging out of these traces as mirroring the governments to whom she has been subject, blurring the line between her identity and her legal identification. The poems of Disbound seek beauty and understanding in sadness and confusion, and find the chance for love in displacement, even as the space for reconciliation in politics and thought seems to get narrower.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Series
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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