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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin Michael Jones; Stanford University Press. |
ISBN: | 9781503613393 1503613399 9781503613874 1503613879 |
OCLC Number: | 1236059018 |
Description: | X, [4], 306 stron ; 24 cm. |
Responsibility: | Kevin M. Jones. |
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Publisher Synopsis
"Through beautiful translations and insightful commentary, The Dangers of Poetry demonstrates how poetic works expressed the hopes, desires, and anxieties of colonized subjects, from tribal landscapes to prison cells. This perceptive book is a welcome addition to recent scholarship on cultures and poetics in Ottoman, Arab, and Persian societies, and will interest all those concerned with non-Western modernities and anticolonial resistance." -- Orit Bashkin * University of Chicago * "Public life in twentieth-century Iraq was thoroughly colored by the contexts, conventions, and critiques of poetic performances. Kevin Jones offers for the first time in English a cogent account of the modern literary giants-such as Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri and Muhammad Salih Bahr al-'Ulum-whose compositions and performances electrified publics and created a unique language for a range of political movements and situations. The Dangers of Poetry is a valuable contribution to our understandings of the social and cultural history of modern Iraq." -- Elliott Colla * Georgetown University * Read more...

