Of Lost Cities: The Maghribi Poetic Imagination

by Nizar F. Hermes

The poetic memorialization of the Maghribi city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribi poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The first work of its kind in English, Of Lost Cities explores the poetics and politics of elegiac and nostalgic representations of the Maghribi city and sheds light on the ingeniously indigenous and indigenously ingenious manipulation of the classical Arabic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228022290
• ISBN13: 9780228022299
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 258 Pages