In the Wake of the Poetic - Palestinian Artists After Darwish

Informationen zum Autor Najat Rahman is professor of comparative literature at the University of Montreal. She is the author of Literary Disinheritance: The Writing of Home in the Work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar. Klappentext Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. Through an examination of selected works by key artists Rahman articulates an aesthetic founded on loss, dispersion, dispossession, and transformation. Zusammenfassung Heralding a new period of creativity! In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. Through an examination of selected works by key artists Rahman articulates an aesthetic founded on loss! dispersion! dispossession! and transformation.

Product details

• Authors: Najat Rahman
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780815634089
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3408-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Contemporary Issues in the Mid; Contemporary Issues in the Mid; Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society