Placing the Poet
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq
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1998
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-3732-2 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-3732-2 (ISBN)
Makes available, for the first time in English, the work of a major modern Arab poet, providing a framework for understanding his experience not only as an Arab writer but as a postcolonial one.
CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
This is a comprehensive study of the most widely celebrated of twentieth-century Iraqi writers, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, whose premature death in 1964 from Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) was lamented in cultural circles throughout the Arab world. This book makes available to English-speaking readers for the first time an unprecedented amount of information about a single Arab poet (including a large selection of previously untranslated poetry). In addition, it places the poet's work in the broader context of postcolonial resistance to Western hegemony, illuminating obscure aspects of his writing and relating it to other authors of his time.
CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
This is a comprehensive study of the most widely celebrated of twentieth-century Iraqi writers, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, whose premature death in 1964 from Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) was lamented in cultural circles throughout the Arab world. This book makes available to English-speaking readers for the first time an unprecedented amount of information about a single Arab poet (including a large selection of previously untranslated poetry). In addition, it places the poet's work in the broader context of postcolonial resistance to Western hegemony, illuminating obscure aspects of his writing and relating it to other authors of his time.
Terri DeYoung is Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Washington. She is the coeditor of Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Literature.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Empty Spaces and Unveiled Placeholders
Locating Southern Iraq
2. This Other Eden
3. Jaykur Stretches Out to Meet Margate Sands
Reclaiming the Land Laid Waste
4. Odysseus Returns as Sindbad
The Quest for an Inner Landscape
5. This Boy's Life
6. Resisting Otherness
Colonialism and the Writing of Modern Arabic Literary History
7. 1948
Seeking Brave New Worlds
8. The Epic Turn
9. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.4.1998 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-3732-9 / 0791437329 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-3732-2 / 9780791437322 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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