{"product_id":"9780228022299-of-lost-cities","title":"Of Lost Cities","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Maghribī Poetic Imagination\u003cbr\u003eContaining the first translations into English of many poetic gems of premodern and precolonial Maghrib? poetry, Of Lost Cities reveals the enduring power of poetry in capturing the essence of lost cities and the complex interplay of loss, remembrance, and longing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first work of its kind in English, \u003cem\u003eOf Lost Cities\u003c\/em\u003e explores the poetics and politics of elegiac and nostalgic representations of the Maghribī city and sheds light on the ingeniously indigenous and indigenously ingenious manipulation of the classical Arabic subgenres of city elegy and nostalgia for one's homeland. Often overlooked, these poems – distinctively Maghribī, both classical and vernacular, and written in Arabic and Tamazight – deserve wider recognition in the broader tradition and canon of (post)classical Arabic poetry. Alongside close readings of Maghribī poets such as Ibn Rashīq, Ibn Sharaf, al-Ḥuṣrī al-Ḍarīr, Ibn Ḥammād al-Ṣanhājī, Ibn Khamīs, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Tūnisī, al-Tuhāmī Amghār, and Ibn al-Shāhid, Nizar Hermes provides a comparative analysis using Western theories of place, memory, and nostalgia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContaining the first translations into English of many poetic gems of premodern and precolonial Maghribī poetry, \u003cem\u003eOf Lost Cities\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the enduring power of poetry in capturing the essence of lost cities and the complex interplay of loss, remembrance, and longing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55305005367670,"sku":"9780228022299","price":97.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39538599.jpg?v=1769486400","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780228022299-of-lost-cities","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}