"If You Wish a Picture": Ekphrasis as Technique in Solmaz Sharif's Look.
This article analyzes the use of ekphrasis in Solmaz Sharif's debut poetry collection, Look (2016). The poems in Look are constructed around terms taken from the United States Department of Defense's Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms and describe the experiences of Sharif and her Iranian f...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 173 - 187 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Toronto Press
Aug2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=172006565&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 172006565 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00077720 CRA jtl: Canadian Review of American Studies issn: 00077720 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Aug2023 vid: 53 iid: 2 pid: 678 pub: University of Toronto Press artinfo: ui: 172006565 10.3138/cras-2023-009 ppf: 173 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 544KB tig: atl: "If You Wish a Picture": Ekphrasis as Technique in Solmaz Sharif's Look. aug: au: Obedkoff, Aaron affil: Independent Scholar su: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Iranian Americans Look (Book) Sharif, Solmaz United States. Dept. of Defense Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 Poetry (Literary form) Ekphrasis 21st century (Literary period) sug: subj: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Iranian Americans Look (Book) Sharif, Solmaz United States. Dept. of Defense Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 Poetry (Literary form) Ekphrasis 21st century (Literary period) keyword: contemporary poetry ekphrasis poésie contemporaine ab: This article analyzes the use of ekphrasis in Solmaz Sharif's debut poetry collection, Look (2016). The poems in Look are constructed around terms taken from the United States Department of Defense's Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms and describe the experiences of Sharif and her Iranian family in the aftermath of the events of 9/11. The prominent presence of sight and visuality in the collection will be analyzed through the concept of the "scopic regime." Turning attention towards Sharif's description of artifacts of family memory, including a video recording of Sharif's father and a series of photos of her uncle, it is argued that ekphrasis functions in the collection as a mechanism by which to determine the conditions of visibility within the collection and, in so doing, navigate the problematics of mediating trauma and violence in the contemporary scopic regime. Cet article est une analyse de l'emploi de l'ekphrasis dans le premier recueil de poésie de Solmaz Sharif, Look (2016 ; en français : Mire). Les poèmes de Mire, construits sur des termes empruntés au Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms du ministère de la Défense des États-Unis, décrivent les expériences vécues par l'auteure et sa famille, d'origine iranienne, après les évènements du 11 septembre 2001. La présence frappante de la vue dans les poèmes ainsi que leur caractère visuel sont analysés grâce au concept de régime scopique. En s'intéressant à la description par l'auteure d'artéfacts de la mémoire familiale, notamment une vidéo de son père et une série de photos de son oncle, l'article soutient que l'ekphrasis fonctionne comme un mécanisme qui détermine les conditions de visibilité à l'intérieur du recueil et que, ce faisant, elle permet de démêler la problématique de la médiation du traumatisme et de la violence dans le régime scopique contemporain. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Literary Criticism src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Canadian Review of American Studies is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Canadian Review of American Studies holder: University of Toronto Press dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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