Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation
In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinian history, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish’s aesthetics have played a crucial role in shaping and maintaining Palestinian identity and culture through decades of warfare, attrition, exile, and land confiscation. Mattawa chronicles the evolution of his poetry, from a young poet igniting resistance in occupied land to his decades in exile where his work grew in ambition and scope. In doing so, Mattawa reveals Darwish’s verse to be both rooted to its place of longing and to transcend place, as it reaches for the universal and the human.
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Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation
In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinian history, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish’s aesthetics have played a crucial role in shaping and maintaining Palestinian identity and culture through decades of warfare, attrition, exile, and land confiscation. Mattawa chronicles the evolution of his poetry, from a young poet igniting resistance in occupied land to his decades in exile where his work grew in ambition and scope. In doing so, Mattawa reveals Darwish’s verse to be both rooted to its place of longing and to transcend place, as it reaches for the universal and the human.
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Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation

by Khaled Mattawa
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Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation

by Khaled Mattawa

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In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinian history, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish’s aesthetics have played a crucial role in shaping and maintaining Palestinian identity and culture through decades of warfare, attrition, exile, and land confiscation. Mattawa chronicles the evolution of his poetry, from a young poet igniting resistance in occupied land to his decades in exile where his work grew in ambition and scope. In doing so, Mattawa reveals Darwish’s verse to be both rooted to its place of longing and to transcend place, as it reaches for the universal and the human.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780815652731
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 06/12/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 602 KB

About the Author

Born and raised in Libya, Khaled Mattawa immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He is associate professor in the English Department at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Tocqueville and Amorisco.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Note on Translations and Transliteration xvii

1 An Introduction: Perennial Tensions 1

2 The Poet and the National Literature 14

3 Poet under Occupation, 1964-1971 30

4 Poet of National Liberation, 1971-1986 62

5 To Survive in the World: Writing the Deep Present and the Deep Past, 1986-1993 94

6 Who Am I without Exile?: Anxieties of Renewal and a National Late Style, 1995-2008 128

7 Parting Words: The Poet Appropriates Contingency 154

Postscript 169

References 177

Index 185

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