ARA 4302
Readings in Arabic Literature, Religion and Politics
Pensum Spring 2007

A	Source Texts        (total number of pages: 49pp)
Source texts to be read in class will be chosen among the following poems:

1)	Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Unshudat al-matar (1953/60) (6pp.)

2)	Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Madinat Sindibad (1960) (8pp.)

3)	Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, al-Masih ba’da l-salb (1957) (6pp.)

4)	Mahmud Darwish, Wa-‘ada fi kafan (1964) (6pp.)

5)	Mahmud Darwish, Shahid al-ughniya (1966) (2pp.)

6)	Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Ma ba’da l-Jaljala (1964) (1p)

7)	Fadwa Tuqan, Lan abkiya (1968) (6pp.)

8)	Fadwa Tuqan, Hulm al-dhikra (1952) (8pp.)

10)	Sa’di Yusuf , Nushur (1982) (1p.)

11)	 Girgis Shukri, Hayah (2004) (2pp.)

12)	Girgis Shukri, Wa-ba’d (2004) (2pp.)

B	Reference Works & Secondary Literature        (total number of pages: 443pp.)

B.	1 	Literary Backgrounds

1)	Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature. 2 vols., Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey (eds.), London and New York, Routledge & Francis Group 1998 (= EAL)
- contains articles to all relevant authors and to some relevant literary terms
(UiO available)

3) 	Crosshatching in Global Culture. A Dictionary of Modern Arab Writers: An 
updated English Version of R.B. Campbell’s “Contemporary Arab Writers”. 2 vols., Beirut 2004 (Beiruter Texte und Studien vol. 101a+b) (relevant articles as MASTERCOPIES available)

2)	Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature. Salma Khadra Jayyusi (ed., introd.), New 
York, Columbia University Press 1992, pp. 48-66: “Poetry after 1967” (18pp.)
(available at UiO)

4)	Jayyusi, Salma Khadra, Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry. 2 vols., 
Leiden, Brill 1977, vol. 2, chap. VIII, (iv) “The Myth and the Archetype”, pp. 720-747; (27pp.)
(available at UiO)

5)	Bassam K. Frangieh, “Modern Arabic Poetry: Vision and Reality”, in: Traditions, 
Modernity and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature: Essays in Honour of Prof. Issa J. Boullata.  K. Abdel Malek/ Wael Hallaq (eds.), Leiden, Brill 2000, pp.221-249 (28pp.).
(not at UiO; MASTERCOPY)

7)  Pannewick, Friederike, “The Martyred Poet on the Cross in Arabic Poetry: Sacrifice, 
Victimization or the Other Side of Heroism?”, in: Martyrdom in Literature: Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity. F. Pannewick (ed.), Wiesbaden, Reichert 2004, pp. 105-121 (16pp.)
(not at UiO; MASTERCOPY)

6)	Paul Starkey, Modern Arabic Literature. Edinburgh University Press 2006, 
Chap. 5 “Poetry: The Modernists”, pp. 79-95 (16pp.)
(not available at UiO; UBTØ can be ordered soon; MASTERCOPY)

B. 2	 Historical and Political Backgrounds
 
7)	Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press 2000; pp.108-143 “The Hashemite monarchy 1941-58” (35pp.)
pp. 148-192: “The republic 1958-68”(44pp.)
(available at UiO)

8)	“Chronology of Modern Palestinian History”, in: Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature. Salma Khadra Jayyusi (ed., introd.), New York, Columbia University Press 1992, pp. xxv-xxxiii (8pp.)

AL-SAYYAB: 

1)   EAL, vol. 2, pp.696-7, art. by I.J. Boullata (2pp.)

7)	Crosshatching in Global Culture. A Dictionary of Modern Arab Writers: An 
updated English Version of R.B. Campbell’s “Contemporary Arab Writers”. 2 vols., Beirut 2004 (Beiruter Texte und Studien vol. 101a+b), vol.1, pp.1033-1039 (6pp.)

8)	M.M. Badawi, A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry. Cambridge 
	University Press 1975, 
pp. 250-257 : short overview on al-Sayyab’s poetical work ( 7pp.) (UiO available)

9)	Modern Arabic Poetry. An Anthology. Salma Khadra Jayyusi (ed.),  New York,
Columbia University Press 1987, 
pp. 427-442: main dates of al-Sayyab’s life + English translation of the poems “Rain Song”, “Song in August”, “Jaikur and the City”, “Death and the River”, “In the Arab Maghreb”(15pp.)    (UiO available)

10)	Terri DeYoung, “A new reading of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab’s ‘Hymn of the rain’”, 
	in: Journal of Arabic Literature XXIV, No. 1 (March 1993), pp. 39-61; 21pp. 
	(UiO available; MASTERCOPY)

AL-BAYATI:

1)	EAL, vol. 1, pp. 142-43, art. by I.J.Boullata (2pp.)

2) Crosshatching in Global Culture. A Dictionary of Modern Arab Writers: An updated
English Version of R.B. Campbell’s “Contemporary Arab Writers”. 2 vols., Beirut 2004 (Beiruter Texte und Studien vol. 101a+b), vol.1, pp. 234-238 (4pp.)

2)	M.M. Badawi, A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry. Cambridge 
	University Press 1975, pp. 210-16 (6 pp.)

4)	I.J. Boullata, al-Bayati, ÝAbd al-Wahhab, in: Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, New York (1981-4), vol.2, pp. 208-9 (2pp.)

5)	Modern Arabic Poetry. An Anthology. Salma Khadra Jayyusi (ed.),  New York, Columbia University Press 1987, 
pp. 170-9: main dates of al-Bayati’s life + English translation of the poems “The Impossible”, “Luzumiyya”, The Birth of Aisha and her Death”, “Elegy for Aisha” (9pp.)

6)	Verena Klemm, “Ideals and reality: The adaption of European ideas of literary commitment in the post-colonial Middle East – The case of Abdalwahhab al-Bayati”, in: Conscious Voices. Concepts of writing in the Middle East. S.Guth/ P. Furrer/ J.C. Bürgel (eds.), Beirut 1999 (Beiruter Texte und Studien vol. 72), pp.143-152 (9pp.)
(only UBB; MASTERCOPY)

7)	 M.M. Badawi, “Commitment in Contemporary Arabic Literature”, in: Badawi, Modern Arabic Literature and the West. London, Ithaca Press/University of Oxford 1985, pp. 1-25 (25pp.)
(UiO available)

DARWĪŠ:

1)	EAL, vol. 1, art. by Y. Suleiman, pp. 183-84 (2pp.)

2)	Crosshatching in Global Culture. A Dictionary of Modern Arab Writers: An updated English Version of R.B. Campbell’s “Contemporary Arab Writers”. 2 vol., Beirut 2004 (Beiruter Texte und Studien vol. 101a+b), vol.1, pp.280-86. (6pp.)

3)	Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature. Salma Khadra Jayyusi (ed.), New York, Columbia University Press 1992, 
pp. 145-159: main dates of Darwish’s life + English translation of the poems “Poem of the Land”, “Homing Pigeons”, Guests on the Sea”, Intensive-Care Unit”, Psalm 9”, “We went to Aden” (14pp.)
(UiO available)

4)	Anette Månsson, Passage to a new wor(l)d. Exile and restoration in Mahmoud 
	Darwish’s writings. 1960-1995. Uppsala Universitet 2003; esp. pp. 103-124: “Mythological prototypes”. (21pp.)
(UiO available; see more references pp. 243-57)

5)	Angelika Neuwirth, “Mahmud Darwish’s Re-Staging of the Mystic Lover’s relation Towards a Superhuman Beloved”, in: Conscious Voices. Concepts of Writing in the Middle East. S.Guth/ P. Furrer/ J.C. Bürgel (eds.), Beirut 1999 (Beiruter Texte und Studien vol. 72), pp. 153-171. (18pp.) (MASTERCOPY)

6)	Angelika Neuwirth, “From Sacrilege to Sacrifice. Observations on Violent Death in Classical and Modern Arabic Poetry”, in: Martyrdom in Literature: Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity. F. Pannewick (ed.), Wiesbaden, Reichert 2004, pp.259-282. (23pp.)
(MASTERCOPY)

ÓØQĀN:
	
1) EAL, vol.2, art. by I.J.Boullata, pp. 785-86 (2pp.)

7)	Crosshatching in Global Culture. A Dictionary of Modern Arab Writers: An 
updated English Version of R.B. Campbell’s “Contemporary Arab Writers”. 2 vol., Beirut 2004 (Beiruter Texte und Studien vol. 101a+b), vol. 2, pp. 1130-1134. (4pp.)

8)	Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature.  Salma Khadra Jayyusi (ed., introd.), New York, Columbia University Press 1992, 
pp. 310-16: main dates of Tuqan’s life + English translation of the poems “The Sybil’s Prophecy”, Enough for me”, The deluge and the Tree”, “Song of Becoming” (6pp.)

4)	Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Woman’s Body – Woman’s World – Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing. New Jersey, Princeton Univ. Press 1991, pp. 161-178. (17pp.) (UiO available)

5)	Terri DeYoung, “Love, Death, and the Ghost of al-Khansa’: The Modern Female Poetic Voice in Fadwa Tuqan’s Elegies for Her Brother Ibrahim”, in: Kamal Abdel-Malek/ Wael Hallaq (eds.), Tradition, Modernity and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature: Essays in Honour of Prof. Issa J. Boullata. Leiden etc., Brill 2000, pp. 45-75 (30pp.) (UiO available)