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Questions and Their Retinue : Selected Poems of Hatif Janabi /
In these poems he has created symbolic landscapes that attempt to reveal the political, social, and psychological stresses with which suffering people live.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In these poems he has created symbolic landscapes that attempt to reveal the political, social, and psychological stresses with which suffering people live. The speaker in many of Janabi's poems moves from a confrontational stance to one of resigned desperation, and from coyness to deep longing, where, occasionally, hope surfaces. The associative processes and the often bizarre surreal imagery he employs are very effective in expressing his profound sense of political and spiritual alienation. Janabi is among a generation of Arab poets who, because of censorship, can speak only obliquely about the harsh reality of their lives. Hatif Janabi's poems are passionate, jolting, apocalyptic, and painful. They deal with war and death, perception and truth, drawing from his family life, his exile in Poland, the Gulf War, violence in Iraq, and his experience in the United States. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (87 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781610753326 |