Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Auteur de Desert Voices: Bedouin Women's Poetry in Saudi Arabia (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 11
- Popularité
- #857,862
- Évaluation
- 4.0
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- 1
- ISBN
- 5
It isn’t an anthology but a study, using the latest critical techniques. The author makes her argument for this in the introduction. Here a poetry unseen in English translation before – ‘marginalized’ several ways over -- is given the dignity of full critical treatment.
The poetry itself? Most poetry, everywhere, is about grief, isn’t it? The melancholy mood, above others, is singable. It seems to be here. I loved the yearning for the desert when the poet finds herself stranded in a town, and the intimate use of landscape and its animals:
"The khaluj [a she camel that has lost its calf] is the most compelling image of grief in the Bedouin Arabic dialect. The she camel is perceived as the animal most vulnerable to loss, displaying its reactions in extended and lingering mourning intervals. Sometimes its extreme mourning leads to death... its anguished and persistent moans haunt Bedouin poetry."
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