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This Book Is Full of Holes

Literary Bodies and the Invention of an Idiom
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Holes command attention. They make us giggle, squirm, and wonder. But what do they really mean to us and why are they so often surrounded by surprising discourses of power and control? For millennia, the figure of the hole stood as the cornerstone for idioms and expressions that denote emptiness, lack, absences, and voids. Approaching a hole makes one wary of imbalance or depravation. A hole demands to be filled. This Book Is Full of Holes challenges these hollow associations, offering instead a range of unexpected (and provocative) religious, sociosexual, philosophical, and scientific discourses. Through an analysis of a wide range of literary and cultural objects, yasser elhariry brings disparate discursive spheres into conversation. He nimbly juxtaposes the holey relationships between ancient Hebrew riddles and Hollywood space movies, '90s grunge and Black astrophysics, Swiss cheese and philosophy, sacred ritual and postcolonial feminism. Satirical, dead serious, and deeply personal, elhariry's treatise on this seemingly dead-end object-holes-illuminates the paradox that they nonetheless maintain a persistent hold on the imagination. His stylish analysis reveals their overlooked racialized, gendered, homophobic, and corporeal histories. Holes have been weaponized. This Book Is Full of Holes disarms.
yasser elhariry is Associate Professor of French Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation, and the Postfrancophone Lyric, and coeditor of Literature as Sound Studies, Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean, and Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities.
Dedication Epigraphs List of Abbreviations Illustrations Prologue 1. Holey Trouble Invention of an Idiom 2. Once Upon a HO EL in Geneva, Poetry and Music Taught Me to See Our Bodies as Wholly Porous 3. Learning to Live in the Hole-Ocene 4. The Importance of the Hole Is No Deleuzian, or How Is Philosophy Like Swiss Cheese? Bodies Bodies Bodies 5. How Wonderfully This Language Falls on the Ear and Not in It, or Sounds of Eros According to A?mad Faris al-Shidyaq 6. Ooooooooooooooooo, Puffs Christophe Tarkos into the Hole of Language 7. Hands in Mouths in Rituals, Intersectional, Classical, Anticolonial 8. Unbearable, This Is What It Feels Like to Fill Some Holes in My Islamic History Books Holes of Criticism 9. Black Black Holes Blow Back 10. U Suck, So Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Lautreamont's Army of 400 Suckers Is Coming 4UR Ass Acknowledgements Bibliography Notes
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