Nazik al-Mala'ika

Revolt Against the Sun (eBook, ePUB)

The Selected Poetry of Nazik al-Mala'ika: A Bilingual Reader
Redaktion: Drumsta, Emily / Übersetzer: Drumsta, Emily

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Iraqi poet Nazik al-Malaika 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 taf¿ilah) 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 for the first time. Bringing together poems from each of her published collections, it traces al-Mala'ika'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 how one woman transformed 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saqi Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780863563522
• Artikelnr.: 60398257

Autorenporträt

Emily Drumsta is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. She has published articles in Research in African Literatures, Social Text and Middle Eastern Literatures, and has a chapter in the forthcoming volume The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation. Her translations from Arabic have appeared in McSweeney's, Asymptote, Jadaliyya and ArabLit.

Inhaltsangabe

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