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Looking back at al-Andalus [electronic resource]

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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.

Title Looking back at al-Andalus [electronic resource] : the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature / by Alexander E. Elinson.
Publisher Leiden
Boston : Brill
Creation Date 2009
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.
English
Content The poetics of loss and nostalgia in Muslim Spain -- Written in stone : the Andalusī rithāʼ al-mudun in the Arabic elegiac tradition -- Weeping over the poetic past : poetry into prose in al-Saraqusṭī's Qayrawan maqāma -- Al-Andalus and Sefarad in the Hebrew qaṣīda -- The view from al-Andalus : looking east, west, and south for Andalusī identity -- A final look back -- Appendix: Select Arabic and Hebrew texts.
Series Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 1571-5183
v. 34
Extent 1 online resource (200 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010718807005171
MARC RECORDS
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