Skip to main content alibris logo

The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq

by

Write The First Customer Review
The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq - Jones, Kevin M
Filter Results
Shipping
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

"This book tells the story of rebel poetry in Iraq from the early twentieth century to the dawn of the Ba'thist era. It emphasizes the social relevance of rebel poetry by showing how poetry was composed, recited, disseminated, criticized, and punished. And it documents the role of poets as national spokesmen in the long struggle for national liberation, locating their ideas and actions in the global currents of anticolonial modernity"--

loading
The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq 2020, Stanford University Press

ISBN-13: 9781503613393

Hardcover