Author by: Language: en Publisher by: Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 25 Total Download: 232 File Size: 55,6 Mb Description: AbstractThe subject of this dissertation is the life achievement of Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998). A man of his times and of all times, he is by far the most popular poet in the Arab world. Yet he is also moved to anger by the forces of evil around him, and the opposing poles of exaltation and rage, of agony and ecstasy, describe his unique experiment. As such he has been able to bring equilibrium and decorum to poetry in crisis, reviving faith in the possibility of happiness and emotional fulfillment. The language of fire emanating from the selected poems that celebrate stories of sacrifice, resistance, and endurance remind us that the real revolution is about imagining human relations that are rooted not in domination and control, but in elevating principles of justice and humanity for all.Author by: Nizār Qabbānī Language: en Publisher by: Interlink Publishing Group Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 9 Total Download: 336 File Size: 40,5 Mb Description: An accomplished master of the erotic, standing among the best love poets of the world, Qabbani has asserted life and joy in the face of chaos and tragedy, paying fervent homage, sustained over five decades, to woman's grace and loveliness. Their voices were enlisted as a way to make this essay a patchwork of testimonials on Arab people yearning for self-determination and dignity, while facing oppression as a way of life.
Their testimony shows that oppression in the Arab world cuts through class, ethnic and gender lines. The poets selected here might not all have the same understanding of justice and liberation, yet each one exposes in his and her own way the decay within the very ones who are suffering from international and national forms of oppression. Thus, their words have guided and fueled anticolonial movements as well as dissent during the postcolonial era. The metaphor of walking with lips raining fire and love captures their quest for coexistence, or what Glissant calls “the poetics of relation” without forgoing burning questions about justice. Arab poets envisioned liberation through a revolt against the self that has surrendered to the oppressors’ fantasy to consider their injustices a necessary price for modernity and progress. Their work has unmistakably exceeded nationalist projects in line with Fanon’s international dimension of the national consciousness, which is at heart a commitment to human dignity, coevalness, and freedom. This essay is about Arab poets’ testimonials on the failures and strengths of the human condition.
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