- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The poetic memorialization of the Maghrib? city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghrib? poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE.
The first work of its kind in English, Of Lost Cities explores the poetics and politics of elegiac and nostalgic representations of the Maghrib? city and sheds light on the ingeniously indigenous and indigenously ingenious manipulation of the classical Arabic subgenres of city elegy and nostalgia for one's homeland. Often overlooked, these poems – distinctively Maghrib?, both classical and vernacular, and written in Arabic and Tamazight – deserve wider recognition in the broader tradition and canon of (post)classical Arabic poetry. Alongside close readings of Maghrib? poets such as Ibn Rash?q, Ibn Sharaf, al-?u?r? al-?ar?r, Ibn ?amm?d al-?anh?j?, Ibn Kham?s, Ab? al-Fat? al-T?nis?, al-Tuh?m? Amgh?r, and Ibn al-Sh?hid, Nizar Hermes provides a comparative analysis using Western theories of place, memory, and nostalgia.
Containing the first translations into English of many poetic gems of premodern and precolonial Maghrib? poetry, Of Lost Cities reveals the enduring power of poetry in capturing the essence of lost cities and the complex interplay of loss, remembrance, and longing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Epigraph: An Elegy for My Grandmother
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation, Transliteration, the Titles of Arabic Poems, the Usage of the Amazigh/Tamazight, and Other Language Choices
- Half Title Page
- Introduction: The Lost Wall of Gabès, ma ville natale
- PART ONE Rithāʾ al-Mudun: Maghribī Lamentations over Fallen Cities
- PART TWO Al-Ḥanīn ilā al-Mudun: The Maghribī Poetics and Politics of Exilic Nostalgia
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index