Two Projects of Modernism in Arabic Poetry1
In: Journal of Arabic LiteratureThe Free Verse poets and the ʿAbbāsid muḥdathūn (the modernizers of the eighth and ninth centuries) share a similar meta-poetic posture at the core of their modernizing projects. Both groups were aware of not only their role as initiators of change, but also their position vis-à-vis the poets who wrote before them. This paper examines these two modernizing experiences through the lens of metapoesis to reveal some of the critical and theoretical concerns that continue to haunt Arabic poets today.
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Muhsin al-Musawi, Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition (New York: Routledge, 2006), 60.
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See Aida Azouqa, “Metapoetry between East and West: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī and the Western Composers of Metapoetry: A Study of Analogies,” Journal of Arabic Literature 39.1 (2008): 38-71; Yair Huri, “The Queen Who Serves Her Slaves: From Politics to Metapoetics in the Poetry of Qāsim Ḥaddād,” Journal of Arabic Literature 34:3 (2003): 252-279; Basiliyus Bawardi, “Unsī al-Hājj and the Metapoetic Text: Writing Hybridization,” Middle Eastern Literatures 10.1 (2007): 35-55.
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Yūsuf al-Khāl, al-Aʿmāl al-Shiʿriyyah al-Kāmilah (Beirut: al-Taʿāwuniyyah al-Lubnāniyyah lil-Taʾlīf wa-l-Nashr, 1973), 197-198. All translations are my own unless otherwise specified.
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Adūnīs, Aghānī Mihyār al-Dimashqī (Beirut: Dār al-ʿAwdah, 1971), 52.
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Ibid., 81.
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Jawdat Fakhr al-Dīn, Manāratun lil-gharīq (Beirut: Dār al-Nahār, 1996), 10.
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Maḥmūd Darwīsh, Athar al-farāshah (Beirut: Riyyād El-Rayyes Books, 2008), 109.
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Jaroslav Stetkevych, “Arabism and Arabic Literature,” in Arabic Poetry and Orientalism, ed. Walid Khazendar (Oxford: St. John’s College Research Center, 2002), 22.
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Ibid., 21.
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T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland and Other Writings (New York: Modern Library, 2002), 102.
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Suzanne Stetkevych, Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the Abbasid Age (Leiden: Brill, 1991), 5.
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Charles Altieri, “Why Stevens Must Be Abstract, or What a Poet Can Learn from Painting,” in Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernism, ed. Albert Gelpi (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 89.
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Two Projects of Modernism in Arabic Poetry1
In: Journal of Arabic LiteratureThe Free Verse poets and the ʿAbbāsid muḥdathūn (the modernizers of the eighth and ninth centuries) share a similar meta-poetic posture at the core of their modernizing projects. Both groups were aware of not only their role as initiators of change, but also their position vis-à-vis the poets who wrote before them. This paper examines these two modernizing experiences through the lens of metapoesis to reveal some of the critical and theoretical concerns that continue to haunt Arabic poets today.
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