E-mails from Scheherazad (The University of Central Florida Contemporary Poetry Series) - Softcover

Kahf, Mohja

 
9780813026213: E-mails from Scheherazad (The University of Central Florida Contemporary Poetry Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813026210 ISBN 13: 9780813026213
Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Kahf establishes herself as a new voice in the tradition of ethnic American poets, blending the experiences of recent Arab-American immigrants into contemporary American scenery. In her poems, Muslim ritual and Qur'anic vocabulary move in next door to the idiom of suburban Americana, and the legendary Scheherazad of the Thousand and One Nights shows up in New Jersey, recast as a sophisticated postcolonial feminist.

Kahf's carefully crafted poems do not speak only to important issues of ethnicity, gender, and religious diversity in America, but also to universal human themes of family and kinship, friendship, and the search for a place to pray. She chronicles the specific griefs and pleasures of the immigrant and writes an amulet for womanly power in the face of the world's terrors. Her poetic energy is provocative and sassy, punctuated now and then with a darker poem of elegiac sadness or refined rage.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mohja Kahf is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Arkansas. Her poems have appeared in the Paterson Review, Atlanta Review, and other journals, and in various poetry anthologies. She is the 2002 recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Award for achievement in poetry.

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Verlag
University Press of Florida
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813026210
ISBN 13 
9780813026213
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
118
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