Ebook: The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry: Ibn al-Ḥajjāj and Sukhf
Author: Sinan Antoon (auth.)
- Tags: Middle Eastern Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Literature general, Literary History, Middle Eastern Literature
- Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and examines its rise by placing it in its sociopolitical context.
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