Reading performativity and community as major themes across Hammad's work, the article tracks these influences from her performance of "first writing since" in 2002 to her 2008 poetry collection, breaking poems. An exploration of the connection between performativity and community in Hammad's work ...
This chapter analyzes two exemplary poems by Suheir Hammad and D. H. Melhem, focusing on the aesthetic strategies that are applied to interrogate various kinds of “borders” and experiences of inclusive exclusion in the aftermath of 9/11. Hammad and Mel