Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

on the left. The endeavor is revisionist in the main, for the “return of the dead”^85 signifies their subordination to the will ...

poem of 1967 “I Shall Never Cry.” According to the editors and translators of Ma.mnd Darwlsh’s Selected Poems(1973), these quatr ...

replace the awakening intellectuals. In precarious situations, displacement becomes the norm, not settlement, and a poetic of ex ...

Vows of the poor Over the Atlas Mountains A lyric in the poetry of Abu Tammam. She became Beirut and Jaffa An Arab wound in the ...

6 ENVISIONING EXILE Past anchors and problematic encounters Exile is places and times which change their victims. (Ma.mnd Darwls ...

Exilic Arabic poetry draws on three sources: first, the strong exilic tradition that includes poems and writings by intellectual ...

fugitives. “How could someone who is being sought stay in one place?” said one Sufi.^10 In Islamic culture, there is traditional ...

through the troubles of immigration, disorientation, dislocation, alienation, and spiritual and geographical exile. The confusio ...

reality where everything changes into a grave, and where great names and poets are confiscated or lost in the sordid reality of ...

decided to join political opposition to Saddam’s regime. In “Baghdad: Who Knows?” the poet addresses Baghdad as follows: But Bag ...

to collapse it into that of a colonizer. With little or no concern for people there, the expatriate sees himself/herself as too ...

Cultural tradition works differently in American and European cultures. Malcolm Cowley speaks, for instance, of the lost generat ...

methodologies. Its aporetic^34 nature within a war atmosphere is imbued with ennui and discontent, and its rebellious spirit is ...

it imply a deliberate rejection of one’s homeland. It is free from active dissent or opposition. As “the migrant intellectual” i ...

readerships. It is only when this metaphor is cited as representative of a cultural scene at large that qualifications need to b ...

A rose in the gardens of Babylon, A poet in the southern province of Buwayb,^41 My corpse under an Iraqi sun, My dagger is on my ...

distant and the unseen to map out the mapless and traverse the future. The Qur’mnic hoopoe is entreated to lead them into the va ...

a name “scribbled on maps as if / to fill [...]spaces” (Ibid.). Indeed, to him this world is antagonistic for being so different ...

In his ironic comparisons with the Homeric tradition, Ovid offers some subtle analysis of the difference between exile and adven ...

1969, he was well received, but he found out later that he was in danger of further coercion, manipulation, and possible death. ...