Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile and the Nation by Zeina Halabi

Author:Zeina Halabi [Halabi, Zeina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Social Science, Islamic Studies
ISBN: 9781474421416
Google: njZYDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017-05-18T01:11:48.108000+00:00

33. Khoury, ‘Risala ila Ralph Rizqallah’, p. 19.

34. Youssef Habshi al-Ashqar is one of the earliest and least recognised novelists who have written about the civil war. See al-Ashqar, Al-Zill wa-l-Sada; and La Tanbut Judhur fi al-Sama.

35. Abbas Baydoun relates the critical blackout on Jaber’s 1990s novels to Jaber’s young age, his withdrawal from the literary scene, and his proliferate and complex writings that overwhelm critics and readers alike. Baydoun, ‘Man Yaqra Rabee Jabir?’, p. 18.

36. Iskandar Najjar made a similar claim in Najjar, ‘An Shay Aswad’, p. 14.

37. See Kamal Salibi’s reading of Jaber’s trilogy. Salibi, Beirut wa-l-Zaman.

38. Shawqi Bzih (Shawqī Bzī) writes about how Jaber’s trilogy rescues collective memory from oblivion. Bzih, ‘Beirut Madinat al-Alam’, p. 10. Ghenwa Hayek makes a similar argument in her analysis of the trilogy: ‘What Jabir’s novels set out to do is to construct the map of downtown Beirut for the new generation. They re-historicize the city space by delving into its distant past, and moving forward in time into its contemporary present.’ Hayek, ‘Rabi Jaber’s Bayrut Trilogy’, p. 186.

39. Abbas Baydoun explains: ‘We hardly know anything about Rabee Jaber except his novels. This author does not leave his text, allow interviews, or engage critical debates. Nor does he talk about himself or circulate his photographs. Even when found, these photographs are unauthorized.’ Baydoun, ‘Bukir Rabee Jaber’, p. 1.

40. Darraj, Al-Dhakira al-Qawmiyya fi-l-Riwaya al-Arabiyya.

41. Al-Eid, ‘Rabee Jaber la Yudawwin al-Tarikh Bal Wujud al-Insan’.

42. Mostafa, ‘Literary Representations of Trauma, Memory, and Identity’, p. 213.

43. Ibid. p. 212.

44. I owe the translation of this passage to Mostafa, ‘Literary Representations of Trauma, Memory, and Identity’, p. 213. All other translations from the novel are my own.

45. Jaber, Ralph Rizqallah, p. 165.

46. ‘Mona F.’ is likely a reference to Mona Fayyad, Ralph’s colleague at the Lebanese University. Fayyad has written extensively on mental disabilities, correctional institutions and gender in the Lebanese context. She also contributed to the special commemoration of Ralph Rizqallah in al-Mulhaq. Fayyad, ‘Lam Naud bi-Mana’.

47. Known as Jad, Georges Khoury is an animation and Claymation artist whose depiction of traditional characters and neighbourhoods in Beirut is humorous and nostalgic.

48. Bassam Hajjar was Ralph’s colleague at al-Mulhaq. In his poetry, Hajjar wrote about death, internal exile and existential angst in an innovative and experimental language. He also wrote an article about Ralph in al-Mulhaq’s special issue. Hajjar, ‘Al-Taasa Huna’, p. 6.

49. The original Arabic title ‘Ralph Rizqallah fī al-mirāt’ has been translated literally to ‘Ralph Rizqallah in the mirror’ in previous studies pertaining to the novel. I believe that my translation of the Arabic title into ‘Ralph Rizqallah through the looking glass’ is a more accurate reflection of the intertextuality that Jaber establishes with Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. See Jaber, Ralph Rizqallah, p. 30.

50. Hutcheon, Narcissistic Narrative, p. 1.

51. Kristeva, Desire in Language, p. 1.

52. Barthes, S/Z, p. 36.

53. Jaber, ‘Al-Katib wa-Aslafuh’, p. 25.

54. Hutcheon, Narcissistic Narrative, 25.

55. In Journey of Little Gandhi, the narrator sets himself on a mission to find out what

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