Mahmoud Darwish : the poet's art and his nation / Khaled Mattawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattawa, Khaled, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and literature.

Darwīsh, Maḥmūd--Criticism and interpretation.

Darwīsh, Maḥmūd.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinian history, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish's aesthetics have played a crucial role in shaping and maintaining Palestinian identity and culture through decades of warfare, attrition, exile, and land confiscation. Mattawa chronicles the evolution of his poetry, from a young poet igniting resistance in occupied land to his decades in exile where his work grew in ambition and scope. In doing so, Mattawa reveals Darwish's verse to be both rooted to its place of longing and to transcend place, as it reaches for the universal and the human.

Contents:

An introduction: perennial tensions

The poet and the national literature

Poet under occupation, 1964-1971

Poet of national liberation, 1971-1986

To survive in the world: writing the deep present and the deep past, 1986-1993

Who am I without exile? anxieties of renewal and a national late style, 1995-2008

Parting words: the poet appropriates contingency

Postscript.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815652731

0815652739

OCLC:

881430503