The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13030-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

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 qasidah without circumventing its historical moment. It painstakingly analyses 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.
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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kadhim, Hussein

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

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).