“Canticle of the Rain” (Al-Sayymb) 142,
144, 148, 219, 227, 255, 256–59
childhood: experiences of 148–49
Christ 31, 142, 150, 222
cities 221, 229–30
classical poetics 12
conversational poetics 103–06
corruption 54, 74, 76, 78
creativity 18, 61, 64, 89, 116, 152,
235; and exilic experience 200
“Crying before Zarqm’ al-Yammmah”
(Dunqul) 3–4
cultural dislocation 165, 175
cultural globalism 171
“Dm’irat al-khawf’ (The Circle of Fear)
(al-Rubay‘l) 90–91
Danmnlr 19, 20
Dante Alighieri 232, 233–34
Darwlsh, Ma.mnd 4, 23–24, 165–66,
188–89, 267; dedications to Ynqmn
158–59; exile 168, 169, 172–74,
190; identity and its formation
24–27; nationalistic rhetoric 23–24,
25; notion of mask 32–33; personae
and voicing 95; poetic dialogization
89; reversal poetics 249; textual
homelands 255; transgeneric mode
125–27; use of Sumerian lore 109;
view of Lorca 146
death: physical 153–54, 155–56;
reclamation from 266
“Death-in-Between: A Dialogue”
(al-Xabnr) 27, 103
deconstruction 13, 47, 79, 130, 133,
139, 148, 153; of myth 221–24
dedications 68, 83–84, 130, 146, 158,
159; existentialist and forlorn
141–42; forms of 138–39;
lyrical-elegiac mood 142–43; as
paratexts 143–44; see alsoelegy
demystification 106–07
depersonalization 38, 45, 46, 163
Derrida, Jacques 133, 134, 139, 147,
148, 149
deviational poetics 237–39
Dhmkirah lil-nisymn (Memory for
Forgetfulness) (Darwlsh) 23–24
dialectics: of tradition-modernity
nexus 56–58
discourse 62–63; hegemonic 9, 12–13,
47, 48, 63–64, 84, 179, 203, 245;
unitary 89–91
disidentification 46, 48, 99–100
disinheritance 227–30
dislocation seeexile/exilic poetry
dissidence as exile 177–82
Dlwmn school 9, 10, 13, 32
Djebar, Assia 190
Dostoevsky, Fyodor 129
Dowson, Ernest 182
dramatic poetry 128–29
Dunqul, Amal 3, 139Eagleton, Terry 164
elegiac-lyricism 142–43, 144
elegiac prelude 243–45, 247
elegy 146–48; as act of gift giving
147–48; al-Baymtl’s 146–49,
151–53, 154–55, 199; deviations
263; to Hmwl151–53, 154–55; to
al-Sayymb 147, 148–50
“Elegy to Khalil Hawi,” (al-Baymtl) 33,
151–53, 160–61, 221
Eliot, T. S. 15, 16, 28, 60, 78, 107–08,
128, 140, 164, 217, 224; about
tradition in modern poetry 225;
dedications to 220; influence 30–31,
47–48, 225; mythical method 218;
translations from 45–46, 59;
treatment of Dante 232, 233–34
elitism 12–13
epiphany 252–53
erotica 96–99
exchange of gifts and privileges
131–33, 241
“Exile” (Dowson) 182
exile/exilic poetry 50–52, 64–65, 84,
90–91, 103–05, 162; and adventure
176; community 205–06; debating
redemptive and regenerative poetics
210–11; displacement of memory
193–96; dissidence as177–82;
estrangement and memory 182–86,
191–92; exile internalized 190–01;
exilic inertia 170–77; and
expatriation 165–70, 193; forebears
as masks 188–89; homecoming 167,
175, 176–77; image of wanderer
195–96, 200, 210;INDEX