Poems for the millennium : the University of California book of North African literature. Volume four / edited with commentaries by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joris, Pierre.

Tengour, Habib.

Series:

Poems for the millennium ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North African literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (793 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoenician, Jewish, Roman, Vandal, Arab, Ottoman, and French. Though concentrating on oral and written poetry and narratives, the book also draws on historical and geographical treatises, philosophical and esoteric traditions, song lyrics, and current prose experiments. These selections are arranged in five chronological "diwans" or chapters, which are interrupted by a series of "books" that supply extra detail, giving context or covering specific cultural areas in concentrated fashion. The selections are contextualized by a general introduction that situates the importance of this little-known culture area and individual commentaries for nearly each author.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Thanks And Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Book Of Multiple Beginnings

First Diwan

The Oral Tradition I

Second Diwan

A Book Of Mystics

Third Diwan

A Book Of Writing

Fourth Diwan

The Oral Tradition II

Fifth Diwan

A Book Of Exiles

The Oral Tradition III

Credits

Index Of Authors

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781283806282

1283806282

9780520953796

0520953797

OCLC:

818846350