Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) |
Contents |
Ibn Rashīq's Mournful Elegy for the Destruction of Qayrawan -- Ibn Sharaf 's Wailing Elegies for Qayrawan -- Mourning over Palatial Ruins: Ibn Ḥammād al-Ṣanhājī's Lament for Qalʿat Banī Ḥammād -- The Dey's Doomed Éventail: Ibn al-Shāhid's Classical and Vernacular Cris over La prise d'Alger -- Al-Ḥuṣrī al-Ḍarīr: A Blind Poet's recherche de la Qayrawan perdue -- The Exilic Tragedy of Ibn Khamīs: Granadian Longing for a Lost Tlemcen -- "This Tunis, Sir, was Carthage!": Abū al-Fatḥ al-Tūnisī's Levantine Yearning for the Bride of the Maghrib -- Olives Before Walls: Al-Tuhāmī Amghār's Pastoral Nostalgia for Imperial Meknes |
Summary |
"The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth century to the nineteenth century CE. The first work of its kind in English, Of Lost Cities explores the poetics and politics of elegiac and nostalgic representation of the Maghribī city and sheds light on the ingeniously indigenous and indigenously ingenious manipulation of the classical Arabic (sub)genres of city elegy and nostalgia for one's homeland. Often over-looked, the distinctive Maghribī, classical and vernacular, Arabic (and Tamazight) poetry deserves wider recognition in the broader tradition and canon of (post)classical Arabic poetry. Alongside close readings of Maghribī poets such as Ibn Rashīq, Ibn Sharaf, al-Ḥuṣrī al-Ḍarīr, Ibn Ḥammād al-Ṣanhājī, Ibn Khamīs, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Tūnisī, al-Tuhāmī Amghār, and Ibn al-Shāhid, Nizar Hermes provides a comparative analysis using Western theories of place, memory, and nostalgia. Containing the first translations into English of many poetic gems of premodern and precolonial Maghribī poetry, Of Lost Cities reveals the enduring power of poetry in capturing the essence of lost cities and the complex interplay of memory, loss, and nostalgia."-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 11, 2024) |
Subject |
Elegiac poetry, Arabic -- History and criticism
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Arabic poetry -- History and criticism
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Nostalgia in literature.
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Cities and towns in literature.
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Memory in literature.
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Loss (Psychology) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780228022305 |
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0228022304 |
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9780228023036 |
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0228023033 |
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