Poetik der Fremdheit: Palastinensische und irakische Lyrik des Exils (LITERATUREN IM KONTEXT. ARABISCH - PERSISCH - TuRKISCH) (German Edition) - Hardcover

Milich, Stephan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3895007293 ISBN 13: 9783895007293

Publisher: Reichert Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

This first study on contemporary Arabic exile poetry focuses on four poets who contributed essentially to the innovation of the contemporary Arabic "Qasida": Sa'di Yusuf (born 1934) and Kamal Sabti (1955-2006) from Iraq as well as Zakariya Muhammad (born 1951) and Ghassan Zaqtan (born 1954) from Palestine. The comparative work offers a profound interpretation and exhaustive analysis of the main features, topics and motives relevant to Arabic exile poetry today, making use of postcolonial (Homi Bhabha), deconstructivist (Jacques Derrida) and hermeneutic (Paul Ricoeur) theories. Oscillating between the loss of identity and its recovery, between nostalgic and traumatic remembrance both of their past and their homelands, the poets strive to find new poetic and meta-poetic forms and linguistic expressions for a world experienced as being out of joint. German text.

About this title

About the Author

Stephan Milich studied Islamic Sciences, German Literature and Social Studies at the Universities of Freiburg and Cairo. He is the author of a study on Mahmoud Darwish's late poetry (Fremd meinem Namen und Fremd meiner Zeit: Identitat und Exil in der Dichtung von Mahmud Darwisch, 2004) and translated Darwish's volume State of Siege into German (Belagerungszustand, 2005). He has translated numerous poems from Arabic into German and has published articles and essays on Modern Arabic Literature. Writing his PhD thesis on contemporary Arabic exile poetry, his main interest of research is on modern Arabic poetry, exile discourses, Iraqi prose and film as well as Arabic children's literature. From 2008 to 2009, he worked at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Marburg University. Since autumn 2009, he has been research assistant at the Seminar of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Gottingen University, Germany.

From the Back Cover

Literatures in Context is a peer-reviewed book series devoted to Near Eastern and North African literatures. The editors want the title of the series to be understood programmatically. They presuppose a concept of world literature that includes Near Eastern and North African literatures. What is more, they assume that literatures are in many ways marked by intertextuality, that they constitute readings of extremely diverse earlier texts, and that they are posited within a field of tensions, much broader than their respective national language. For the earlier eras of Near Eastern and North African literatures, this field of tensions geographically covers the regions of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. In modern times, it has become a space of interaction that has long since included "global" Western literatures (and realities). This does not imply that the modern Near Eastern and North African literatures have severed themselves from their predecessors. Instead it is precisely the tension between different sets of references in modern Near Eastern and North African literatures, or their "local historical context", which is a great part of their attraction, that remains a crucial field of research for the modern scholar.

Edition details

• Publisher: Reichert Verlag
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3895007293
• ISBN 13: 9783895007293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432