{"product_id":"in-the-net-paperback","title":"In the Net - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMahmoudan Hawad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Wise\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eHelene Hawad\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s. This evanescent being, situated on the edge of the abyss and deprived of speech, space, and the right to exist, has reached such a stage of suffering, misery, and oppression that it acquiesces to the erasure implicit in the labels attached to it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through an avalanche of words, sounds, and gestures, Hawad attempts to free this creature from the net that ensnares it, to patch together a silhouette that is capable of standing up again, to transform pain into a breeding ground for resistance--a resistance requiring a return to the self, the imagination, and ways of thinking about the world differently. The road will be long. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hawad uses poetry, \"cartridges of old words, \/ a thousand and one misfires, botched, reloaded,\" as a weapon of resistance.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHawad \u003c\/b\u003eis Amajagh (Tuareg for \"outsiders\"). He is a poet and painter of the Sahara. Hawad writes in his own language, Tamajaght, which he transcribes in tifinagh, the Tuareg alphabet. The drama and resistance of the Tuareg people, of all people threatened with extinction, punctuates Hawad's fictional universe. \u003cb\u003eChristopher Wise\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at Western Washington University. For nearly three decades he has translated the work of Sahelian authors. \u003cb\u003eHélène Claudot-Hawad\u003c\/b\u003e is a French anthropologist and director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research. She is the author of numerous publications on the Tuareg world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692456677439,"sku":"9781496229694","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ce84d408e3a52123c319fce73e29e954.webp?v=1764995526","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/in-the-net-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}