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Author: Sadek Mohammed Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 116
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"Iraq's poets have suffered imprisonment, exile, and death for the truths they have dared to tell. Poetry is not a luxury in Iraq, but a vital part of the struggle for the nation's future. This is poetry that is feared by tyrants and would-be tyrants. You will find joy here as well as struggle. Arabic poetry has a long and rich tradition of ecstatic love, whimsical humor, and philosophic insight. Remarkably, charm and lightness of touch abound. Even the war invites you to a picnic from which you will not return untouched. Many of these poems were written in response to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. "Tomorrow the War Will Have a Picnic," for instance, was composed on the eve of the "shock and awe" campaign against Baghdad. We see here, through Iraqi eyes, the fall of Saddam's statue, his trial, the ongoing sectarian violence, and the foreign invaders on both sides of the struggle."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Sadek Mohammed Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 116
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"Iraq's poets have suffered imprisonment, exile, and death for the truths they have dared to tell. Poetry is not a luxury in Iraq, but a vital part of the struggle for the nation's future. This is poetry that is feared by tyrants and would-be tyrants. You will find joy here as well as struggle. Arabic poetry has a long and rich tradition of ecstatic love, whimsical humor, and philosophic insight. Remarkably, charm and lightness of touch abound. Even the war invites you to a picnic from which you will not return untouched. Many of these poems were written in response to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. "Tomorrow the War Will Have a Picnic," for instance, was composed on the eve of the "shock and awe" campaign against Baghdad. We see here, through Iraqi eyes, the fall of Saddam's statue, his trial, the ongoing sectarian violence, and the foreign invaders on both sides of the struggle."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Salih J. Altoma Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810877066 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 185
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Covering 60 years of materials, this bibliography cites translations, studies, and other writings, which represent Iraq's national literature, including recent works of numerous Iraqi writers living in Western exile. The volume serves as a guide to three interrelated data: o Translations that have appeared since 1950, as books or as individual items (poems, short stories, novel extracts, plays, diaries) in print-and non-print publications in Iraq and other Arab and English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. o Relevant studies and other secondary sources including selected reviews and author interviews, which cover Iraqi literature and writers. o The scope of displacement or dispersion of Iraqi writers, artists, and other intellectuals who have been uprooted and are now living in exile in Arab or other Western countries. By drawing attention to a largely overlooked but relevant and extensive literature accessible in English, this first of its kind book will serve as an invaluable guide to students of contemporary Iraq, modern Arabic literature, and other fields such as women's studies, postcolonial studies, third world literature, American-Arab/Muslim Relations, and Diaspora studies.
Author: Stacey Peebles Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801461421 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 201
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Our collective memories of World War II and Vietnam have been shaped as much by memoirs, novels, and films as they have been by history books. In Welcome to the Suck, Stacey Peebles examines the growing body of contemporary war stories in prose, poetry, and film that speak to the American soldier’s experience in the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War. Stories about war always encompass ideas about initiation, masculinity, cross-cultural encounters, and trauma. Peebles shows us how these timeless themes find new expression among a generation of soldiers who have grown up in a time when it has been more acceptable than ever before to challenge cultural and societal norms, and who now have unprecedented and immediate access to the world away from the battlefield through new media and technology. Two Gulf War memoirs by Anthony Swofford (Jarhead) and Joel Turnipseed (Baghdad Express) provide a portrait of soldiers living and fighting on the cusp of the major political and technological changes that would begin in earnest just a few years later. The Iraq War, a much longer conflict, has given rise to more and various representations. Peebles covers a blog by Colby Buzzell ("My War"), memoirs by Nathaniel Fick (One Bullet Away) and Kayla Williams (Love My Rifle More Than You); a collection of stories by John Crawford (The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell); poetry by Brian Turner (Here, Bullet); the documentary Alive Day Memories; and the feature films In the Valley of Elah and the winner of the 2010 Oscar for Best Picture, The Hurt Locker, both written by the war correspondent Mark Boal. Books and other media emerging from the conflicts in the Gulf have yet to receive the kind of serious attention that Vietnam War texts received during the 1980s and 1990s. With its thoughtful and timely analysis, Welcome to the Suck will provoke much discussion among those who wish to understand today’s war literature and films and their place in the tradition of war representation more generally.
Author: Kimberly Wedeven Segall Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 0815652569 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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Reflecting twenty years of research and experience—after working with guerrilla fighters in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, with Iranian refugees in Istanbul, with interreligious reconciliation groups in Morocco, and with former political prisoners in South Africa—Segall offers a groundbreaking study of globalization, gender, and resistance in public spaces. With timely correctives to the media lens of the Arab and African Spring, the author views protest not just as an economic and political act but also as a potential space of healing and creativity amidst contentious and gendered territories. Analyzing blogs, graphic novels, performances, and public testimonials, this book is unique in its attention to local expressions and creative use of technology to speak of political identities. With its impressive range of generational and gendered voices, Performing Democracy suggests hybrid protests that are voicing trauma, seeking change.
Author: Fadel Khalaf Jabr Publisher: ISBN: Category : Arabic poetry Languages : en Pages : 51
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This anthology captures the catalysts, motivations, inspirations, and outcomes of the free verse movement in Iraq from its inception in 1947 to the present day. It provides English readers with an understanding of the breadth of modern Iraqi poetry landscape by including translated poems within their political, economic, and social context. Beginning in Iraq in 1947, a free verse (shi`r hurr) movement emerged, completely altering the way much poetry would be written thereafter in the Arab World. Wanting to break free of traditional poetry's meters, meanings, and rhymes they found constraining poets began experimenting with new and different styles better able to capture the feelings, values, and events of current and contemporary life. Building on and encouraged by earlier efforts at innovation, they endeavored to break the rigidity of traditional poetry and express new attributes and domains: the dream world, free imagination, open narrative, folklore tales and legends, everyday life, surrealism and mythology. Over subsequent decades, poets furthered the free verse movement, adding their own conceptions of modernism and post modernism along with new styles, meanings, and mediums. Many anthologies of Arabic or Iraqi modern poetry have been published in the United States, such as: Fifteen Iraqi Poets, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2013; Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq, Michigan State University Press 2008; Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Columbia University Press, 1987. However, despite the intentions of the editors, the content of these anthologies reveals several limitations. First, the anthologies introduce only a small portion of the wide Iraqi poetry landscape. Second, the poets selected are mainly those who are already known and internationally translated. Third, occasionally, poets are been selected based on personal preferences not by merit. Despite these limitations, the collections are valuable for introducing in English a flavor of Iraqi poetry. The current work sets out to fill the gaps in the preceding collections and be as resourceful, inclusive, and representative as possible. Poets were selected that represent the full Iraqi poetry landscape, not only those who are well-known and established. Besides bringing a mix of Iraqi poets from different decades, the anthology also provides background on the social, political, and cultural context that dominated each decade. In addition, the translation process used in this anthology distinguishes it from other collections. The distinctive features include: the translation process, the range of the selection, and the perspective on the translations. All poems included in this anthology went through a similar, four-step translation process, an academically controlled system not necessarily available or followed in other poetry collection translations. In Step 1 of this process, the translator produces a raw summary of the content of a poem. In Step 2, the translator generates a literal version, noting any implied cultural, political, linguistic or social references. In Step 3, the translator produces a clean draft translation, which he or she sends, along with the initial raw summary and the literal translation, to a native speaker for review and provision of feedback, in order to check the reception in the host language. In Step 4, the translator produces a final version of the translation, incorporating all the elements of the preceding steps. In addition, in selecting these poems, I attempted to maintain a neutral selection process, rather than promoting my personal preferences and own acquaintances as an Iraqi poet myself. A neutral selection process provides the anthology authenticity, credibility, and a fair representation. To begin, I collected a variety of samples from different poets actively publishing in each decade since the 1940s. To gain access to a wide range of Iraqi poets living both inside and outside Iraq, I used different sources, such as Iraqi newspapers, popular websites, interviews, and personal connections, to acquire poems for the anthology. The response was tremendous. From the numerous poems that I collected, I then selected the ones that best illuminated how the changes and events taking place within Iraq and its society have influenced poets and their poetry. The discussion of the trends and events taking place in the context where the poems were conceived and produced is an additional strength of this anthology.
Author: Karl Kirchwey Publisher: Everyman's Library ISBN: 1101908254 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 242
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A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Author: Hermynia Zur Mühlen Publisher: Open Book Publishers ISBN: 1906924279 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 302
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First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author: Sarah J. Robinson Publisher: WaterBrook ISBN: 0593193539 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 257
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A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.
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