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The poetics of anti-colonialism in the Arabic qasidah / by Hussein N. Kadhim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kadhim, Hussein N.
- Series:
- Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; v. 29.
- Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 1571-5183 ; v. 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic poetry--History and criticism.
- Arabic poetry.
- Anti-imperialist movements--Poetry.
- Anti-imperialist movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qaṣīdah without circumventing its historical moment. It painstakingly analyses a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Aḥmad Shawqī, Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī, Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Arabic literature, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Postcolonial studies, Comparative literature, and Cultural studies.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The Lord and the Bard: Colonial Discourse and Counter-discourse
- Chapter 2 Empire as Occasion: Ahmad Shawq&
- #299
- 's Elegy for Damascus
- Chapter 3 Ma'r&
- #363
- f al-Rus&
- #257
- f&
- and the Poetics of Anti-Colonialism
- Chapter 4 Rewriting the Metropolitan Text: Badr Sh&
- kir al-Sayy&
- b on "Arab Decline"
- Chapter 5 Palestine: The Central Cause: 'Abd al-Wahh&
- b al-Bay&
- t&
- 's "Odes to Jaffa"
- Chapter 6 The Elusive Dream: 'Abd al-Wahh&
- 's Odes to His Son 'Al&
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-91472-6
- 9786610914722
- 90-474-0440-8
- 1-4294-0712-3
- OCLC:
- 191940622
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047404408 DOI
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