The Poetics of Anti-colonialism in the Arabic QaṣīdahBRILL, 2004 - 288 pages 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 "qa dah" without circumventing its historical moment. It painstakingly analyses a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, A?mad Shawq?, Ma?r?f al-Ru f?, Badr Sh?kir al-Sayy?b and ?Abd al-Wahh?b al-Bay?t?. 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. |
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Contents
Amad Shawqìs Elegy | 35 |
Marùf alRußàfì and the Poetics | 85 |
Badr Shàkir | 131 |
The Central Cause | 173 |
Abd alWahhàb | 199 |
Epilogue | 231 |
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