Hijra /
"In Islam, hijra refers to the Prophet Muhammad's departure from Mecca to Medina; the term has come to mean any exodus. Bearing witness to the testimony of immigration--not only the poet's but also that of her family--the poems in the collection create a dialogue between the two world...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Ancestry
- Part One
- Before the Revolt
- New Year
- Aria
- Wedding
- Alchemy
- The Children
- Invasion
- Marriage
- Rapture in Absentia
- The Youngest Wife
- Hijra
- The Prophecy
- Part Two
- Budur
- Azra
- Khadija
- Seham
- Maysam
- Lujayn
- Hadeel
- Reema
- Zaynab
- Yasmin
- Lamis
- Amna
- Sana
- Fatima
- Afra
- Part Three
- Meals
- Asylum
- First Winter
- Plumage
- In the City of Fire
- Idols
- The Letter Home
- Asking for the Daughter
- Retrieval
- Diaspora
- Part Four
- Foliage
- Hamra
- Marrow
- Salat
- Mania
- Bandits
- Scripts
- Solarium
- Exile Nocturne
- Riots
- Transatlantic
- Chirophobia
- Forecasting
- Lions
- Acknowledgments
- Back Cover.