Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qasidah (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qaṣîdah without circumventing its historical moment. It painstakingly analyses a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Ahmad Shawqî, Ma'rûf al-Rusâfî, Badr Shâkir al-Sayyâb and 'Abd al-Wahhâb al-Bayâtî.

It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Arabic literature, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Postcolonial studies, Comparative literature, and Cultural studies.