Overview

Revolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame and pleasure. In an extended conversation with Mona Hatoum's artwork + and , Revolutions asks how young Arab women who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib or not 3aib, shameful or acceptable make and unmake their identities. Working between a Palestinian and Iraqi poetics drawing from artists like Mahmoud Darwish and Naseer Shamma and a feminist Canadian poetics inspired by Ern Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Nicole Brossard, Revolutions spirals and collapses as we turn and re-turn around its circles.

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""This collections weaves and interleaves such wonderful structural variety, offering a myriad of threads that swirl around a collision of cultures."" —rob mclennan ""Astonishing."" —melanie brannagan frederiksen, The Winnipeg Free Press ""This collections weaves and interleaves such wonderful structural variety, offering a myriad of threads that swirl around a collision of cultures … [Mirwali] writes of multiple points of departure and relationships to people, to individuals, to geographies and geopolitical crises; she writes of home, of hearth. She writes of the contradictions of where the heart may go and how one connects to the world, seeking solace and urgency, a connection to where part of her might always remain."" —49th Shelf ""[Mirwali's] precise and careful use of language demonstrates a wisdom far beyond her years."" — All Lit Up

""This collections weaves and interleaves such wonderful structural variety, offering a myriad of threads that swirl around a collision of cultures."" — rob mclennan

Author Information

Hajer Mirwali is a Palestinian and Iraqi writer living in Toronto. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her work has been published in the Ex-Puritan, Brick, Room, and Joyland.

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