Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-16447-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in World Literature

Re-orienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry is the first book to systematically study the parallel development of modernist poetry in Arabic and Persian. It presents a fresh line of comparative inquiry into minor literatures within the field of world literary studies. Focusing on Arabic-Persian literary exchanges allows readers to better understand the development of modernist poetry in both traditions and in turn challenge Europe's position at the center of literary modernism. The argument contributes to current scholarly efforts to globalize modernist studies by reading Arabic and Persian poetry comparatively within the context of the Cold War to establish the Middle East as a significant participant in wider modernist developments. To illuminate profound connections between Arabic and Persian modernist poetry in both form and content, the book takes up works from key poets including the Iraqis Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati and the Iranians Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlu, and Forough Farrokhzad.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Levi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Introduction: mapping a modernist geography in Arabic and Persian poetry; Part I. Crafting a Modernist Geography Across Arabic and Persian Poetry: 1. Formal connections, literary criticism, and political commitment; 2. Travel forms: Arabic prosody, craft, and Nima Yushij's Persian new poetry; Part II. Imagining New Worlds: 3. Ahmad Shamlu's manifesto and proto-third world literature; 4. Badr Shakir al-Sayyab between communism and world literature; Part III: Aftermath: Modernist Ends in Arabic and Persian Poetry; 5. Honoring commitments: 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati's existential trials; 6. Winter in the modernist garden: Furugh Farrukhzad's posthumous poetry and the death of modernism; Conclusion: re-orienting modernism; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Thompson, Levi
Levi Thompson is Assistant Professor of Persian and Arabic Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Journal of Arabic Literature, College Literature, Middle Eastern Literatures, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, and elsewhere.