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Silencing the sea : secular rhythms in Palestinian poetry / Khaled Furani.
LIBRA PJ8190.2 .F87 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Furani, Khaled, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic poetry--Palestine--History and criticism.
- Arabic poetry.
- Arabic poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Poetics.
- Secularism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 298 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Poetry, the traditional repository of Arab history, has become the preeminent medium of Palestinian memory in exile. In probing poets' writings, Silencing the Sea investigates how struggles over poetic form can host larger struggles over authority, knowledge, language, and freedom. It reveals a very intimate and venerated world, entwining art, intellect, and politics, narrating previously untold stories of a highly stereotyped people. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Secular bewilderment
- Rhythms and rulers
- The land of the poem
- Memory for beginnings
- Metrical discipline and mastery
- Poets for "the people"
- Enough "screaming"
- Rhythmical freedom
- Modern poets and "conservative" people
- Redeeming prose
- When meter melts
- The laity outside poetry's temple
- Conclusions : secular prayers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804776462
- 0804776466
- OCLC:
- 764364109
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