Sages of Darkness (eBook, PDF)

A Depiction of Kurdish Life in Late Ottoman Times
Übersetzer: Butt, Aviva

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Previously unavailable in English, Salim Barakat's Sages of Darkness depicts Kurdish life in the period of transition from a traditional tribal existence to half-hearted modernization under the Ottomans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781636679389
• Artikelnr.: 72335045

Autorenporträt

Salim Barakat, one of the world's most innovative writers in Arabic, and one of the greatest of all Kurdish authors, was born in al-Qamishli, Syria, in 1951. His first poem, Niqabat al-Ansab ('Lineage'), was published in 1971. Since then, he has progressed beyond the dream of creating a distinctly Kurdish literature and entered into the mainstream of modernistic literature.

Aviva Butt, born in New York City, obtained a BA and an MA from the University of Sydney. On a postgraduate grant, she visited Shmuel Moreh, Iraqi-born Arabic professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Working with Moreh and subsequently with Reuven Snir of Haifa University, she immersed herself in literary criticism and Middle Eastern culture. In 2017, already an experienced translator, she published the first English translations of Salim Barakat's poems. This led to her 2021 monograph, Salim Barakat, Mahmud Darwish, and the Kurdish and Palestinian Similitude: Qamishli Extended.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Sages of Darkness - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Dramatis Personae.