Nazik al-Malaika: Revolt Against the Sun

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Beschreibung

The Iraqi poet Nazik al-Mala'ika was one of the most important Arab poets of the twentieth century. Over the course of a four-decade career, her contributions to both the theory and the practice of free verse (or tafilah) poetry confirmed her position as a pioneer of Arab modernism.

Revolt Against the Sun presents a selection of Nazik al-Malaika's poetry in English translation for the first time. Bringing together poems from each of her published collections, it traces al-Malaika's transformation from a lyrical Romantic poet in the 1940s to a fervently committed Arab nationalist in the 1970s and 1980s. The translations offer both an overview of her life and work and an insight into the political and social realities in the Arab world in the decades following the Second World War.

Featuring a comprehensive historical and critical introduction, this bilingual reader reveals this groundbreaking poet's role in transforming the landscape of modern Arabic literature and culture in the twentieth century. It is a key resource for students and teachers of Arabic and world literature, as well as for readers interested in discovering an alternative narrative of modern Iraqi culture.

Über den Autor

Nazik al-Malaika was born in Baghdad in 1923. After graduating from the Iraqi Teachers' Training college in 1944, she received a Rockefeller Scholarship to study at Princeton University from 1950-51 and went on to earn a Master's degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1954. In addition to publishing seven poetry collections, four full-length works of literary criticism, and dozens of articles in the most widely read Arabic literary periodicals of the time, she also taught literature at the Teacher's Training College in Baghdad, at Basra University, and at the University of Kuwait. She died in Cairo in 2007.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. The Woman in Love with Night

Revolt Against the Sun

Elegy for a Drowned Man

The Woman in Love with Night

To John Keats

Words Written on a Grave

II. From Splinters and Ash

The Train Passed By

Elegy for an Unimportant Day

At the End of the Stairs

Chasm Song

To my Dearly Departed Aunt

Cholera

A Funeral for Happiness

Accusations

III. From At the Bottom of the Wave

To a Girl Sleeping in the Street

Elegy for a Woman of No Importance

Three Elegies for my Mother

The Sacrifice of a Dancer

When I Killed my Love

Words

Journey

An Invitation to Life

IV. From Moontree

The Moon Tree

A Greeting to the Iraqi Republic

Song for the Arab Ruins

A Song for the Moon

Three Communist Songs

V. From Of Prayer and Revolution

Sleeping Beauty

A Trilogy at a Time of Parting Ways

Headlines and Notices in the Arab Newspapers

Of Prayer and Revolution

On Peace and Justice

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Gattungen & Methoden , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780863563171
ISBN-10:	0863563171
Sprache:	Arabisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	al-Malaika, Nazik
Redaktion:	Drumsta, Emily
Übersetzung:	Drumsta, Emily
Hersteller:	Saqi Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	213 x 135 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Nazik al-Malaika
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.10.2020
Gewicht:	0,242 kg