The Poetics of Anti-colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah

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BRILL, 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.
 

Contents

Amad Shawqìs Elegy
35
Marùf alRußàfì and the Poetics
85
Badr Shàkir
131
The Central Cause
173
Abd alWahhàb
199
Epilogue
231
Bibliography
265
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Hussein N. Kadhim, Ph.D. (1998) in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington, teaches Arabic Language and Literature at Dartmouth College. He is the co-editor of Edward Said and the Post-Colonial (Nova Publishers, 2002).

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