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The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah
Series: - Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Volume: 29
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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 qaṣīdah without circumventing its historical moment. It painstakingly analyses a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Aḥmad ShawqÄ«, MaÊ¿rÅ«f al-Ruá¹£ÄfÄ«, Badr ShÄkir al-SayyÄb and Ê¿Abd al-WahhÄb al-BayÄtÄ«.
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.
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.
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).
All those interested in Arabic literature, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Postcolonial studies, Comparative literature, and Cultural studies.