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Author Kadhim, Hussein N

Title The poetics of anti-colonialism in the Arabic qaṣīdah / by Hussein N. Kadhim
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages)
Series Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 1571-5183 ; v. 29
Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; v. 29. 1571-5183
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 The Lord and the Bard: Colonial Discourse and Counter-discourse -- Chapter 2 Empire as Occasion: Ahmad Shawqī's Elegy for Damascus -- Chapter 3 Ma'rūf al-Rusāfī and the Poetics of Anti-Colonialism -- Chapter 4 Rewriting the Metropolitan Text: Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb on "Arab Decline" -- Chapter 5 Palestine: The Central Cause: 'Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī's "Odes to Jaffa" -- Chapter 6 The Elusive Dream: 'Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī's Odes to His Son 'Alī -- 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
Summary "This book represents the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry. Through painstaking analyses of a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Ahmad Shawqi, Ma'ruf al-Rusafi, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati, the book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qasidah without circumventing its historical moment." "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."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-270) and index
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Subject Arabic poetry -- History and criticism
Anti-imperialist movements -- Poetry
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
Anti-imperialist movements
Arabic poetry
Kasside
Antikolonialismus
Kasida.
Anti-imperialisme.
Arabisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004040759
ISBN 1429407123
9781429407120
9789004130302
9004130306
1280914726
9781280914720
9786610914722
6610914729
9047404408
9789047404408