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Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature
Pierre (Ed) Joris
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Paperback. An anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and includes a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Editor(s): Joris, Pierre; Tengour, Habib. Num Pages: 792 pages, 22 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1044. The University of California Book of North African Literature. 792 pages. Editor(s): Joris, Pierre; Tengour, Habib. An anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and includes a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCQ. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 34. Weight: 1044.
In this fourth volume of the landmark "Poems for the Millennium" series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range ... Read more
In this fourth volume of the landmark "Poems for the Millennium" series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
792
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1044g
Number of Pages
792
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520273856
SKU
V9780520273856
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About Pierre (Ed) Joris
Pierre Joris is a Professor of English at SUNY, Albany and an acclaimed translator and editor. as well as the author of many books of poetry. He is coeditor of UC Press's highly successful first two volumes in the Poems for the Millennium series. Habib Tengour is a poet, editor, translator, anthropologist, and novelist. He is editor of xuvres ... Read more
Reviews for Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature
"This book is the most important contribution to world literature for this year... Every page shocks with different energy."
Grace Cavalieri Washington Independent Rev "With ingenious translations and informative commentaries, Joris and Tengour . . make palpable that this region is a wellspring of the culture we value in the West. In so doing, they restore to us missing ... Read more
Grace Cavalieri Washington Independent Rev "With ingenious translations and informative commentaries, Joris and Tengour . . make palpable that this region is a wellspring of the culture we value in the West. In so doing, they restore to us missing ... Read more