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Qassim Haddad

Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems

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Winner of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award 2013. Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad's seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The central poem, Chronicles of Majnun Layla, recasts the seventh-century myth into a contemporary, postmodern narrative that revels in the foibles of oral transmission, weaving a small side cast of characters into the fabric of the poem. Haddad portrays Layla as a daring woman aware of her own needs and desires and not afraid to articulate them. The au… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Ghazoul, Ferial (Übers.) / Verlenden, John (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8156-1037-3
  • EAN: 9780815610373
  • Produktnummer: 16547296
  • Verlag: Syracuse University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.7 cm x D1.0 cm 200 g
  • Gewicht: 200
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

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Qassim Haddad is a Bahraini poet, notable within the Arab world for his free verse poetry. He has published more than a dozen collections of poetry and works of critical prose, and a memoir. His poems have been translated into several languages including German, English, and French. Ferial Ghazoul is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo. She is the editor of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. John Verlenden is a writing instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo. He is the co-translator, along with Ferial Ghazoul, of Rama and the Dragon: An Egyptian Novel.

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