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

by Stephan Milich

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.

432 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2009