This book presents a critical study of five poetry collections by the Iraqi poet Hatif Janabi (Hātif Janābī): Farādīs, ayā’il wa ‘asākir (Paradises, Deer, and Soldiers, four poetry collections in one, Damascus 1998), Raġba bayna ġaymatayn (A Desire Between Two Clouds, Beirut 2009), Maw‘id ma‘a šafrat as-sikkīn (An Appointment with a Knife’s Blade, Beirut 2012), Iḏā daẖalta baytanā fa-satuqabbil qadamayka al-‘ataba (If You Enter Our Home, the Threshold Will Kiss Your Feet, Baghdad 2014), and Walīmat al-asmāk (Fish Banquet, Baghdad 2017). This study seeks to address essential aspects of Janabi’s poetry, related to its ideational and philosophical contents, focusing on the multiple joints upon which the texts are based, and which are major milestones of the poet’s imaginative world.
Price: $50.00
Pages: 224
Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
Imprint: Jagiellonian University Press
Publication Date:
18 April 2023
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.22 in
ISBN: 9788323350088
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
Yousef Sh'hadeh is assistant professor in the Institute of Oriental Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
Introduction
Part I. The Poet Between Two Expatriates 11
1. Hatif Janabi: Life and Works 13
2. Exile and Alienation 16
Part II. Single and Collective Hero – Humanization, Animalization and Objectification 49
1. Single and Collective Hero 51
2. Humanization, Animalization and Objectification 57
Part III. Title Indications, Allusiveness and Symbols 81
1. The Semantics of the Title and Its Symbolic Hints 83
2. Semantic Possibilities of Symbols, Vagueness, and Mystery 100
3. Symbolic Connotations of Blindness and Vision 117
Part IV. Textual Openness and Employment of Myths, Religions,
and Holy Books 131
1. The Use of Legends and Their Implications 133
2. Mythical and Religious Symbols, God and Sacred Books 150
Conclusion 173
Bibliography 177
Summary in Arabic 181
