13 Quoted in Franz Rosenthal, “The Stranger in Medieval Islam,” Arabica, XLIV
(1997), pp. 35–75, at p. 50.
14 Sa‘dlYnsuf wrote: “Reading these poets [the French]I felt I wasn’t bound by
anything, by any tradition.” See, “I Have Trained Myself Hard to be Free,”
Banipal, 20, summer 2004, pp. 2–14, at p. 7.
15 Quoted in Edward Said, “Reflections on Exile,” Out There: Marginalization and
Contemporary Cultures, eds Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinch T. Minh-ha,
and Cornel West. Foreword by Maria Tucker (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990),
pp. 357–66, at p. 357.
16 Terry Eagleton, Exiles and Émigrés: Studies in Modern Literature(London: Chatto
and Windus, 1970), p. 15.
17 AbnBakr’s uncle, a master of ornate style and poetry.
18 Rosenthal, “The Stranger in Medieval Islam,” p. 52, n. 69.
19 Quoted in Rosenthal, “The Stranger in Medieval Islam,” p. 57. See also another
version in A. J. Arberry, Poems of al-Mutanabbl(Cambridge: University Press,
1967), p. 103.
20 Rosenthal, p. 57.
21 The poem begins:
The abodes of the Valley in respect of delightfulness are, in
relation to other abodes, as spring among all other times,
but the Arab lad amidst them is a stranger in face, hand and tongue,
They are places of jinns to play in—if Solomon had journeyed in them,
he would have journeyed with an interpreter.
See Arberry, Poems of al-Mutanabbl, p. 134.22 William H. Gass, “Exile,” in The Best American Essays, 1992, ed. Susan Sontag
(New York: Ticknor, 1992), p. 135.
23 David R. Slavitt, trans. Ovid’s Poetry of Exile(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1990), p. 70.
24 See Culler, “On the Negativity of Modern Poetry,” Languages of the Unsayable, p. 194.
25 Mahmoud Darwish, “A Horse for the Stranger,” The Adam of Two Edens, eds
Munir Akash and Daniel Moore (New York: Jusoor and Syracuse University
Press, 2000), p. 110.
26 Timothy Brennan, “The National Longing for Form,” in Nation and Narration,
ed. Homi K. Bhabha (London: Routledge, 1990), pp. 44–67, at p. 60.
27 Aijaz A.mad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, and Literatures, (London: Verso, 1992),
p. 134.
28 Buland al-Haydari, “Buland al-Haydari: Nine Poems,” trans. Salih J. Altoma,
Banipal, Autumn 2003, pp. 29–34, at p. 29.
29 Buland al-Hayadari “Exile’s Agony,” in “Buland al-Haydari: Nine Poems,”
trans. Salih J. Altoma, Banipal, Autumn 2003, pp. 29–34, at p. 31.
30 Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, and Memory: An Autobiography Revisited(New York:
Random-Vintage, 1986), p. 277.
31 Ma.mnd Darwlsh, “Inn ‘udta wa.dak” (If You Return by Yourself ), Lmta‘tadhir
‘mmmfa‘alt (Do Not Apologize for What You Did), (Beirut: Riad El-Rayyes
Books, 2004), p. 31.
32 Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s(New York:
Viking, 1975), p. 36.
33 Mahmoud Darwish, “Eleven Planets in the Last Andalusian Sky: One Day I’ll Sit
on the Sidewalk,” The Adam of Two Edens, p. 158. References to the philosopher
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