Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory Book

Note on Transcription
Introduction
Part 1. Returns
Returns 1. Topology of a City
The Map
First Turn: Frame from Afar
Second Turn: The Eye-in-the-Tracing
Third Turn: The Gaze Outside
Fourth Turn: The Fans
Fifth Turn: Bi-langue
Sixth Turn: The Cartographic Dream
Seventh Turn: Remembering from Right to Left
Eighth Turn: The Story of the Dough-Boy
Ninth Turn: Mullî, The Trope of Re-turn
Returns 2. The New Village
Returns 3. Splinters at L-Hashmi's Funeral
Part 2. Contra-diction: Hadda, Son of Tamu
Contra-diction 1. Dialogics of Fitna
She Might Kill You Too
Fitna: A Maze of Words to Get Lost In
Rhetoric of the Expulsion: The Image and the Feces
The Bit and the Bridle of Love
Contra-diction 2. Hasab and Nasab
Tea and Sugar, the Masculine and Feminine, the Name and the Other
The Lock and the Loom
Forgetting Names
Contra-diction 3. My Father and I
My Father and I
The Fire
The Candle
Appendix: Fitna (from Lisân al-'ârab, fourteenth century)
Part 3. Loss: The Sphere of the Moon
Loss 1. The Sphere of the Moon
The Dream
Dreams, Heterography, and the Voyages of the Rûh
The Leaving
Loss 2. Ruins
"And the Last Is Left Empty-Handed": Scenes from Si Lhussein's History of Fall
Trauerspiel and the Disiecta Membra of Allegory
The Inestimable Ruins of the Present
Everything Returns to Being Earth
Istinzâl: The Broom and the Ladder of Rhetorics
Loss 3. Impasse of the Angels
Tell Me Sunken Well
L-Ghîd, l-Hîd, andthe Poetry of Exile
Black Words
Inhabiting the Vanishing
On the Paths That Words Take
 
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index