The Poetics of Anti-colonialism in the Arabic QaṣīdahRepresenting 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 |
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A˙mad Abbàsid Abd al-Wahhàb al-Bayàtì Abù Adab Aḥmad Shawqi al-'Arabì al-'Arabiyyah al-Bayātī al-dahr al-Ruṣāfi al-Rußàfì al-Sayyàb Al-Sayyid al-Shi'r Alì Allah anti-colonial Arab poets Arabic Literature Arabic Poetry Ba'da Badr Baghdad Beirut blood British Cairo classical Arabic classical qaßìdah colonial concluding connotative contrast Cromer Damascenes Damascus Dār death denotes Dinshaway Dinshaway incident Dīvān Dìwàn Druze Egypt Egyptian exile Fayßal following line French hemistich of line homeland imagery implicit invoking Iraq Iraqi Islamic Jaffa Khoury line 11 line 20 Lutfi Al-Sayyid Massis metaphor Modern Arabic Poetry moreover motif Mu˙ammad Muslim Najd Nakbat night notion noun opening line Ottoman Palestine Palestinian passage poem poet’s Poetics political pre-Islamic qaṣīdah qaßìdah qaßìdah tradition Qur'ān recalled reference refugees respect Revolt second hemistich Shawqi Shi'r speaker structure subsection Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych symbol Syrian T. S. Eliot thematic theme tion Trans triliteral Umayyad verb verse wal-Nashr Waste Land