{"id":9516,"date":"2012-12-23T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9516"},"modified":"2012-12-23T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T13:30:27","slug":"the-maghrebi-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/the-maghrebi-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maghrebi anthology …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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…or the book Habib Tengour & I kept referring to as Diwan Iffrikyia<\/strong>\u00a0all the years we worked on it, & that UCP calls The University of California Book of North African Literature<\/strong>, has now its Amazon site, which does allow you to\u00a0check out the table of contents and read some (20%, they say) of the texts while waiting for the copies to arrive (any day now! \u2014 though\u00a0probably\u00a0no longer in time for Christmas).<\/p>\n

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Publication Date:\u00a0January 31, 2013\u00a0| ISBN-10:\u00a00520273850\u00a0| ISBN-13:\u00a0978-0520273856\u00a0| Edition:\u00a01<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/form>\n
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Book Description<\/strong>
\nIn this fourth volume of the landmark\u00a0Poems for the Millennium<\/i>\u00a0series, 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 of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoenician, Jewish, Roman, Vandal, Arab, Ottoman, and French. Though concentrating on oral and written poetry and narratives, the book also draws on historical and geographical treatises, philosophical and esoteric traditions, song lyrics, and current prose experiments. These selections are arranged in five chronological “diwans” or chapters, which are interrupted by a series of “books” that supply extra detail, giving context or covering specific cultural areas in concentrated fashion. The selections are contextualized by a general introduction that situates the importance of this little-known culture area and individual commentaries for nearly each author.<\/div>\n
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Hardcover<\/a><\/td>\n$80.00<\/td>\n<\/td>\n$80.00<\/a><\/td>\n$169.80<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Paperback<\/td>\n$32.09<\/td>\n<\/td>\n$32.09<\/a><\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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