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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872863606 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100135420 02 0872863603 03 9780872863606 15 9780872863606 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Memories of Our Future</TitleText> <Subtitle>Selected Essays 1982-1999</Subtitle> 1 A01 Alcalay, Ammiel Ammiel Alcalay Ammiel Alcalay is poet, translator, critic, and scholar who teaches at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of, among other books, After Jews and Arabs (1993); the cairo notebooks (1993); Memories of Our Future (1999); from the warring factions (2002); and Scrapmetal (2007). A new book of essays, A Little History, is due out in 2010. He was one of the initiators of the Poetry Is News Coalition, and helped to organize the Olson Now project. He has recently launched Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, a publishing venture whose mission is to retrieve and make available key texts falling widely under the rubric of the New American Poetry. 2 A24 Goytisolo, Juan Juan Goytisolo Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931. Since 1956 he has lived in voluntary exile outside Spain and now lives in Marrakesh. In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Carribean Prize for Literature. His most recent books are State of Siege, The Garden of Secrets, Landscapes of War, and The Marx Family Saga. 01 eng 292 00 292 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Essays 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Middle East/North Africa 01 Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice."An outstanding anthology of essays surveying the complexities of Mediterranean cultures; the diverse, changing space of the Balkans, Middle East, and North Africa-areas of diasporas, dislocations, and genocidal exterminations provoked by nationalism and religious fanaticism. Of special interest are his observations and analysis of the Israeli/Palestinian confrontation, Arab/Jewish poetics, and Jewish identity in America."-Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsLocal Politics: The Background as Foreword Ammiel Alcalay Acknowledgments Five Hundred Years After: What Was Left Unsaid about Sepharad Juan Goytisolo PRELUDES: AN OPENING ``weighing the losses, like stones in your hand' Atonement OF BOOKS AND CITIES/ THE JOURNEY My Mediterranean The Quill's Embroidery: Untangling a Tradition The Quill's Embroidery: Poetry, Tradition, and the ``Postmodern' Paris / New York / Jerusalem: The Unscheduled Flight of Edmond Jabes and Jacques Derrida Perplexity Index Desert Solitaire: On Edmond Jabes For Edouard Roditi Behind the Scenes: Before After Jews and Arabs FORBIDDEN TERRITORIES, PROMISED LANDS On Arabesques After the Last Sky Who's Afraid of Mahmoud Darwish? Israel and the Levant: ``Wounded Kinship's Last Resort' Forbidden Territory, Promised Lands In True Colors Culture without a Country Too Much Past The State of the Gulf: Abdelrahman Munif and Hanan al-Shaykh Our Memory Has No Future: On Etel Adnan ``The war was ending, the diasporas beginning' DISPATCHES A Stitch in Time Court Report: Prolonging a Farce The Trial: A Real Farce ``Ay, de mi aljama': Palestinians and Israelis Meet, in Spain! Israel / Palestine 101: A Letter to Robert Creeley Quality Control Ushering in the New Order: Repercussions from the Gulf War Reflections at the End of 1992 Why Israel? THE RETURN: VARIATIONS ON A THEME Understanding Revolution Exploding Identities: Notes on Ethnicity and Literary History Speaking with Forked Tongues, or Parables of Eq 02 Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice."An outstanding anthology of essays surveying the complexities of Mediterranean cultures; the diverse, changing space of the Balkans, Middle East, and North Africa-areas of diasporas... 08 "Ammiel Alcalay brings to any subject an acute sensitivity to writing and a sophisticated understanding of the way politics works to produce and maintain literature. He is a unique and important figure in contemporary world literature." Lynne Tillman 08 "Few contemporary intellectuals can boast of as diverse a range of skills as Ammiel Alcalay. His work is cosmopolitan in the best sense: in an epoch of superficial globalism his approach to the cultures he deals with is always rigorous, always meticulously respectful of particularities and differences. There is no one better qualified to explore the meaning of today's 'culture wars,' locally and globally." Amitav Ghosh 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100135420/images/87286100135420L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100135420/images/87286100135420S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100135420 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19991201 01 9 in 02 6 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19991201 01 02 17.95 USD