ISBN:
9789047442721
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2009
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2009
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
892.7/09353
Keywords:
Arabic literature History and criticism
;
Nostalgia in literature
;
Literatur
;
Andalusia (Spain) In literature
;
Arabisch
;
Hebräisch
;
al- @Andalus 〈Motiv〉
Abstract:
Preliminary Material /Alexander E. Elinson -- Introduction The Poetics Of Loss And Nostalgia In Muslim Spain /Alexander E. Elinson -- Chapter One. Written In Stone: The Andalusī Rithāʾ Al-Mudun In The Arabic Elegiac Tradition /Alexander E. Elinson -- Chapter Two. Weeping Over The Poetic Past: Poetry Into Prose In Al-Saraqusṭīʾs Qayrawan Maqāma /Alexander E. Elinson -- Chapter Three. Al-Andalus And Sefarad In The Hebrew Qaṣīda /Alexander E. Elinson -- Chapter Four. The View From Al-Andalus: Looking East, West, And South For Andalusī Identity /Alexander E. Elinson -- Conclusion A Final Look Back /Alexander E. Elinson -- Appendix Select. Arabic And Hebrew Texts /Alexander E. Elinson -- Works Cited /Alexander E. Elinson -- Index /Alexander E. Elinson.
Abstract:
Looking Back at al-Andalus focuses on Arabic and Hebrew Literature that expresses the loss of al-Andalus from multiple vantage points. In doing so, this book examines the definition of al-Andalus’ literary borders, the reconstruction of which navigates between traditional generic formulations and actual political, military and cultural challenges. By looking at a variety of genres, the book shows that literature aiming to recall and define al-Andalus expresses a series of symbolic literary objects more than a geographic and political entity fixed in a single time and place. Looking Back at al-Andalus offers a unique examination into the role of memory, language, and subjectivity in presenting a series of interpretations of what al-Andalus represented to different writers at different historical-cultural moments
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004166806.i-190
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