Al zayed mahmoud (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Cartographies of Absence is a brilliant demonstration of how the creative act is indeed an act of translation of one's life, times and context. The series of twenty-four poems written first in Arabic and then rendered into English and placed along-side each other, beautifully celebrates the poetry of the written script as it visually catches the eye of readers who may or may not be bi-lingual. It is this juxtaposition of the two worlds-one held in Arabic and the other in English that gives the whole book a dialogic structure, appealing to the heart as well as mind. The beauty of the text lies in this very idea of celebrating traditions of writing in the Arab world which is marked by both intensity of expression and diversity of content. The personal situation of the poet, a Syrian national who has been in India since 2011, pursuing higher education under the aegis of ICCR, needless to say was not without compulsions. Poetry in such situations gives language to intensely felt incidents and events, and becomes an axis of negotiating with the horrors of existence, in order not to lose one's faith in God and man. The highly charged existential moments that the poems capture, documents well, the feeling of being in perpetual exile from one's homeland, from one's people, family and friends and even from one's very own self. Memory and desire become the two lifelines that one can hold on to-as worlds and words, images and fragments keep crowding in when fear and anxiety makes it difficult for one to even dare and dream. (jacket).…

Zustand: New. pp. 214.

Zustand: New. Mahmoud Al-Zayed is Einstein Fellow and Lecturer, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany.Anuradha Ghosh is Professor in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book re-thinks the literary and social worlds of Mahasweta Devi, the prolific and influential writer and social activist, in connection to her praxis. It brings into focus Devi's preoccupation with the human, nature and life, and unwritten or distorted histories that underline her poetics of translating resistance in terms of a radical alterity.The defining feature of Devi's writings is the position she adopts in defence of the human, questioning the nature of the 'abject' in her discourse on the oppressed. Essays in this volume focus on her subversive retellings from the Mahabharata, the political aspects of translation/adaptation of her works in literature, cinema and visual arts and comparative readings of her works by women authors from the Global South as well as the Indian diaspora. They examine her early publications, her writings for children, and the notion of aesthet(h)ics, i.e., ethics and/in aesthetics, as a gesture to pave forward a discourse on liberation and social justice that remains a challenge for the world.The book will be of significant interest to scholars and researchers of postcolonial and decolonial studies, critical translation and adaptation studies, comparative literature, the visual arts, myth and folklore studies, gender and sexuality studies, caste and ethnicity studies, culture studies, ethics in/and aesthetics, activism studies, democratic and indigenous rights discourse, South Asian studies and Global South studies.…

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 196 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.45 inches. In Stock.