Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)





Since the late 1940s, Arabic Poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in transformation and change.

Arabic Poetry studies the poetic in its complexity as pertaining to issues of:

DT Selfhood
DT Individuality
DT Community
DT Religion
DT Ideology Nation
DT Class
DT Gender

This book also studies in context, issues that have been cursorily noticed or neglected, like Shi'i poetics, Sufism, women's poetry, and expressions of exilic consciousness. It employs current literary theory and provides comprehensive coverage of modern and post-modern poetry from the 1950s onwards.

Arabic Poetry is essential reading for those with interests in Arabic culture and literature and Middle East studies.









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