Journal Article

Melancholic Loss: Reading Bedouin Women's Elegiac Poetry

Al-Ghadeer, Moneera

2007

نظرة عامة

Arabic poetry scholarship in English has always acknowledged and examined elegiac poetry but failed to give not only Bedouin poetry from the Arabian Peninsula but also Arab women's writing the recognition it deserves for contributing to the feminine lament, an old concern of women since Greeks, and thereby offering a unique articulation of melancholy and loss. To this end, Al-Ghadeer highlights the cultural and philosophical displacement and/or exchange of the writings on melancholy. He also suggests that the lack of theoretical analyses of melancholy in relation to Arabic literature seemingly signifies an unwillingness to recognize this long comparative history of melancholia.

• الناشر: University of Nebraska Press
• موضوع: Allegory / animal-human relations / Arabian Peninsula / Arabic language / Arabic literature / Arabic poetry / Articulation / Bedouin women / Bedouins / Butler, Judith P / Criticism and interpretation / Depressive disorders / Ego / Elegiac poetry / Elegiac poetry, Arabic / Elegies / English / folk literature / folk poetry / Freud, Sigmund / Grief / History and criticism / Ibn Raddas, 'Abd Allah ibn Mu?ammad / lament / Laments / Literature / Love poetry / melancholy / Melancholy in literature / Middle Eastern literature / Oral poetry / Poetics / Poetry / Sadness / Sha'irat min al-badiyah / Women / Women authors / Women poets / Works