Modern Arabic poetry : revolution and conflict / Waed Athamneh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Athamneh, Waed, author.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Political poetry, Arabic--History and criticism.

Political poetry, Arabic.

Arabic poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic poetry.

Arabic poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Politics in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 311 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English and Arabic.

Summary:

In Modern Arabic Poetry, Waed Athamneh addresses enduring questions raised from the 1950s to the present as she investigates the impact of past and contemporary Middle Eastern politics on its poetry. Focusing on the works of three prominent poets, Iraqi ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī (1926-1999), Egyptian Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī Ḥijāzī (b. 1935), and Palestinian Maḥmūd Darwīsh (1941-2008), Athamneh argues that political changes in the modern Arab world--including the 1967 war and the fall of Nasserism, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and, in Ḥijāzī's case, the 2011 Arab Uprising and its aftermath--inspired transitions and new directions in these poets' works. Enhanced by Athamneh's original translations of a number of the Arabic texts discussed, as well as translations published previously, Modern Arabic Poetry brings these poets fully into the purview of contemporary literary, political, and critical discourse. It argues that their individual responses to political changes proceed in three distinct directions: the metapoetic, in which the poet disengages from the poetry of political commitment to find inspiration in artistic (self-)exploration; the recommitted, in which new political revolutions inspire the poet to resume writing and publishing poetry; and the humanist, in which the poet comes to terms of coexistence with permanent or unresolved conflict.

Contents:

Introduction

The politics and poetics of the modern Arab world

From iltizām to metapoetry: ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī

From iltizām to the Arab uprising: Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī Ḥijāzī

From militant iltizām to humanist: Maḥmūd Darwīsh

Conclusion: the poets and their vocation in the modern world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Athamneh, Waed author. Modern Arabic poetry.

ISBN:

9780268101541

026810154X

OCLC:

962232511