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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 273–293.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Pamela Karimi; Christiane Gruber © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Introduction: The Politics and Poetics of the Child...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 408–414.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Shahrzad Mojab © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Introduction: Dissent: The Politics and Poetics of Women’s Resistance HE POLITICS HE POLITICS POETICS...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 336–354.
Published: 01 August 2017
... on social identification among Kenyan coastal Muslims by taking an ethnographic ear to Indian taarab clowning and its “harlequin poetics.” T he INDIAN OCEAN...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 170–180.
Published: 01 May 2018
... in Arabo-Persian Poetics .” Translator 19 , no. 1 ( 2013 ): 81 – 104 . Gould Rebecca . “ The Persian Translation of Arabic Aesthetics: Rādūyānī’s Rhetorical Renaissance .” Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 33 , no. 4 ( 2016 ): 339 – 71 . Kaviraj Sudipta...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 163–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Alexander Key References Abu Deeb Kamal . Al-Jurjani’s Theory of Poetic Imagery . Warminster, UK : Aris and Phillips , 1979 . Ahlwardt Wilhelm . The Divans of the Six Ancient Arabic Poets Ennabiga, ‘Antara, Tharafa, Zuhair, ‘Alqama and Imruulqais . London : Trübner...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 524–527.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Shayoni Mitra Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in Indian since 1947 Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005 xix + 478 pp., $49.95 (cloth) Poetics, Plays, and Performances: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre Vasudha Dalmia New...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 685–688.
Published: 01 December 2022
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 603–619.
Published: 01 December 2022
... be naturalized or warded off by sovereign proclamations. One is in a state of vertigo—a vertigo that cannot be settled by securing meaning or a context. This tearing is precisely the poetics beyond the human that this article grasps toward to change the terms of analysis. It grasps toward that poetics...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 460–475.
Published: 01 December 2024
... and lyrical prose, and his creative mode of exposition scales up into what this article calls Fayzi's planetary poetics—a way of recognizing, through poetry, how experience, language, and the pursuit of truth are constrained by the earthbound nature of human perspective. Fayzi's theory maintains canny clarity...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 August 2017
... into the precolonial Swahili poetic genre of the utendi . In contrast to previous analyses that have highlighted the appropriation of text to fit local discourses of identity, Vierke argues that the relationship between the Swahili translation and the previous Arabic text is basically aesthetic. Drawing on the concept...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 281–293.
Published: 01 August 2015
... then presents a reading of another portion of Kalhaṇa's masterpiece: a key historical case study that contains an implicit, nuanced theory of historical decline with deep roots in the kāvya tradition. Here Kalhaṇa's poetic chronicle presents an elaborate, albeit implicit, reflection on the problem of knowing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 73–81.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Sunil Sharma Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 - - The City of Beauties in Indo-Persian Poetic Landscape SUNIL...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 90–99.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Fatemeh Keshavarz Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Pregnant with God: The Poetic Art of Mothering the Sacred In Rumi’s Fihi Ma Fih Fatemeh Keshavarz Studies of Rumi can no longer stay on the fringes of ing, much remains unsaid. Many feel...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 381–387.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit Abstract Allison Busch's seminal work on the classical Hindi literature of Mughal India demonstrated how the composition of works of poetic theory ( ritigranth s) became a defining literary enterprise of vernacular court poets in the Mughal-Rajput milieu. Though firmly based...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 13–24.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Nosheen Ali This article examines the role of poetry in illuminating and challenging the meaning of citizenship in the border region of Gilgit-Baltistan, which is located in the north of Pakistan and is internationally considered as forming part of Pakistani Kashmir. Ali discusses how poetic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 528–543.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Alireza Korangy Martyrdom in Iran and the Middle East is a phenomenon that has been subject to a plethora of religious exegesis. However, scholars, often not having prescribed to the Aristotelian notion of poetics, have not only ignored the literary aspects of this phenomenon in the Middle East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 492–507.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Kristina Rogahn Abstract This article investigates multiple sources for the theory and criticism of the taṉippāṭal , a premodern genre of short poetic utterance in Tamil. It argues that although scholars have focused on Tamil scholastic discourse as a source for literary knowledge, certain genres...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 429–436.
Published: 01 August 2012
... their own poetics, women resist a biopolitics in which their bodies are used as a symbolic means of dramatizing conflicts. They have had to replace the everyday, for now, with a politics, polemics, and poetry that allows them to resist. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2012...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 633–643.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in the early medieval period. The essay thus uncovers a history of falsity and warring falsities and then correlates the tendencies of figuration that seemed to prove inseparable from the poetic conquest of political reality in Sanskrit. It traces tropes of sadism and sexual abuse and uncovers the threads...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 3–6.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Anupama Rao; Casey Primel Abstract This short essay introduces the essays in the special section “Concept Histories of the Urban,” which considers the poetics and politics of urban transformation in the global South. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 climate camp global...