Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

However, to go back to Kristeva, these appeals to the general, the universal, and the global involve a great deal of mystificati ...

titled “A Bird in the Cage,” Jmsim impersonates the bird dying but explaining to his comrades and companions that they have lost ...

span the abyss and stand on the porch of a world to be. (Ibid. 51) The poem also plays on a positive religious subtext not only ...

to friendships or intellectual solidarity. Dissenting from party politics may lead to repression equal to the one exercised by t ...

where predecessors were in the long quietude of death. And there is a horizontal line relating the village and the town, where t ...

The implication of disconnection has urgent existentialist overtones whenever the individual is aware of his or her impasse. The ...

The issues of language, identity, and moods of depression are interrelated and intertwined. The sense of loss, so characteristic ...

a present of self-exile, followed, nevertheless, by imprisonment and death. In view of his imprisonment and execution (1991), hi ...

with imagination. It is not surprising that poets are desperately in need of beautifulmoments to punctuate their recollections. ...

Poetry versus oblivion No matter how overwhelming such anxieties and fears seem to be, the poet’s recourse to song counteracts f ...

agonies, so do would-be-martyrs, but they always tread into memory as if to remind us of our better, buried or murdered, self. I ...

sense of threat, disruption, dislocation, and challenge, inside Palestine and outside it: Beware of the coming Sodom, and do not ...

3 Identity versus cultural erosion:Alienation at home and treatment of natives as strangers in their homeland shows more in poet ...

if only the bleeding would stop. It reminds me of Kurdistan at festive times celebrating with flutes and tambourines. And the wr ...

three concepts, he argues, “are present in my poetry, for I realized since my poetic beginnings the human estrangement and alien ...

The amount of exilic anxiety and concern that constitutes the many intersections of al-Baymtl’s poetic matrix is the most distin ...

The self stands in confrontation to that enormous Romantic resource that established the poet’s early reputation, prior to his e ...

(Broken Pitchers 1954), he is so powerless that he asks the addressee back home to pray for him: Pray for me! Across the walls o ...

stagnation and sluggish thought. Other poems like “Intizmr” (Awaiting) and “Wa.shah” (Loneliness) are no less sensitive to issue ...

The poem’s self-interrogation The poem “Al-Mlihah wa al-manfm” is caught between the horizontal and the vertical in space and ti ...