@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {13676},
      author = {Kraver, Stephanie},
      title = {Palestine, Futurity, and the <i>Rithāʾ</i>: A  Poetics of Speculation and Proleptic Mourning},
      journal = {Journal of Arabic Literature},
      address = {2024-04-12},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {This paper explores Fadwā Ṭūqān’s and Maḥmūd Darwīsh’s  poetry written in the wake of the 1967 June War, the  Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982, and the Second Intifāḍah  (uprising) in 2002. Specifically, the article investigates  how the poets mobilize the Arabic elegiac (rithāʾ) genre,  as well as pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetic traditions,  in order to contemplate the future and foster a mode of  proleptic mourning. This paper asserts that these two  Palestinian poets utilize the longstanding elegiac form in  Arabic literary heritage to not only summon and lament past  events and atrocities, but to conjecture about the  insecurity that they anticipate in the years to come. The  poems render both hopeful and pessimistic sentiments and  premonitions, demonstrating how the ongoing Israeli  occupation and the Palestinians’ resultant losses over time  have precipitated increasingly sobering and distressing  speculations about the perpetuation of Palestinians’ grief  in the future.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/13676},
}