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Full-Text Articles in Near Eastern Languages and Societies
Investigating The Relationship Between Noun Classes And Plant Folk Taxonomy In Chasu Language Of Kilimanjaro Region In Tanzania, Peter Rabson Mziray
Investigating The Relationship Between Noun Classes And Plant Folk Taxonomy In Chasu Language Of Kilimanjaro Region In Tanzania, Peter Rabson Mziray
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
The current study investigates the relationship between noun classes and plant folk taxonomy in Chasu (G 22). The study focuses on two objectives: the first objective is to describe the plant folk taxonomy in Chasu and the second objective is to determine the relationship between noun classes and plant folk taxonomy in Chasu. Data were collected from rural villages in Same and Mwanga districts by using free listing, field interviews (jungle-walk-and-identify), and written texts containing Chasu plant names. The findings reveal that Chasu folk taxonomy reflects different ethnobotanical categories; including a unique beginner which is mmea/mimea ‘plant(s)’, and three life …
Materiality Of Traumatic Experience And The Limits Of Representation In Hassan Bani Ameri’S Gonjeshkha Behesht Ra Mifahmand (Sparrows Understand Heaven), Maryam Ghodrati
Materiality Of Traumatic Experience And The Limits Of Representation In Hassan Bani Ameri’S Gonjeshkha Behesht Ra Mifahmand (Sparrows Understand Heaven), Maryam Ghodrati
Emerson Authors, Researchers, & Creators
This paper examines the materialization of trauma as both a narrative and embodied phenomenon in Hassan Bani Ameri’s 2006 novel, Gonjeshkha Behesht ra Mifahmand, using contemporary narrative and trauma theory. The postmodernist narrative, told from the perspective of a photojournalist, reconstructs events surrounding the death of a celebrated Iran-Iraq War commander. I argue that traumatic truths resist full integration into conventional frameworks of understanding, evident in the novel’s non-linear, fragmented narrative and its shift from visual realism to confessional surrealism in an ending that challenges traditional storytelling and historical documentation. By vividly simulating the sensory processing of traumatic memories, the …
Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia
On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney
On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney
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Translation of and commentary on Baudelaire's "On Tasso in Prison," which is an ekphrastic poem after Delacroix's painting of the same name.
Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow
Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow
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Translations of "Is It February?" "Is It March?" "Is It November Again?" and "Is It December Again?"
Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist
Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist
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No abstract provided.
Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham
Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham
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English translation of Abdallah Zrika's "Drops from black candles" accompanied by an essay on the translation process which includes consideration of Laâbi's French translation of the same poem.
While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson
While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson
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A free rendering of Max Alhau's "While dreaming, while writing," with commentary. The original source text is included.
Corona By Paul Celan, David Capps
Five Poems By Michael Krüger, Louise Stoehr
Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston
Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston
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Arnold Johnston's translations of Baudelaire's "The Lovely Ship" and "Invitation to the Voyage."
Blue Crystal By Martha Hofmann, Paul J. Shlichta
Blue Crystal By Martha Hofmann, Paul J. Shlichta
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A translation of a German poem by Martha Hofmann into English verse. The commentary includes a brief biography of Hofmann and a link to additional information.
Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang
Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang
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Susanna Lang's translations of Nohad Salameh's "I Greet You, My Twin" and "Dance of the One/the Moon."
Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde
Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde
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Translation of Feng Zhi's Sonnets 6, 12, 16, and 18 by Emily Goedde.
Persistence Of Memory After A Poem By Bashō, John Savoie
Persistence Of Memory After A Poem By Bashō, John Savoie
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This piece merges a classic haiku of Bashō with a contemporary English poem, first as its own new creative piece, then contemplated further in the commentary.
Four Poems By Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan Mclean
Four Poems By Rainer Maria Rilke, Susan Mclean
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Translations of four German poems from New Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): "The Blind Man," "The Donor," "The Arrival," and "Lady on a Balcony."
From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler
From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler
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"From the Villa" is an epistolary poem in hexameters whose argument is loosely based on the Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. It is addressed to Lucretius's putative dedicatee/patron Gaius Memmius, a contemporary politician and poet.
My Dear Double By Abdellatif Laâbi, Guillemette C. Johnston, Allan Johnston
My Dear Double By Abdellatif Laâbi, Guillemette C. Johnston, Allan Johnston
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This translation of Abdellatif Laabi's poem "My Dear Double" is accompanied by an essay on the theme of the double in literature.
Foreword, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Transference Vol. 8, Fall 2020, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Transference Vol. 8, Fall 2020, Molly Lynde-Recchia
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No abstract provided.
Queering Identity Politics In Shimon Adaf’S Aviva-No, Yael Segalovitz
Queering Identity Politics In Shimon Adaf’S Aviva-No, Yael Segalovitz
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
This article offers a queer reading of Shimon Adaf’s volume of poetry, Aviva-No (2009), analyzing it in conjunction with his recent collection of essays on identity formation, Ani aherim (I am others) (2018). Adaf’s oeuvre has been primarily studied through the lens of ethnicity and race. This article demonstrates that gender plays a key role in his body of work. Aviva-No, which is a lamentation for the poet’s sister, destabilizes the boundaries between the mourning brother and the absent sister. This ontological deconstruction stimulates in Aviva-No a broader undoing of gender as an embodied identity. The volume is replete …
Arab Music And Mizraḥi Poetry, Yochai Oppenheimer
Arab Music And Mizraḥi Poetry, Yochai Oppenheimer
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
The concept of “Arab Jews,” which has appeared in Israeli Mizraḥi (Oriental) discourse over the last decade, resists the framework of Israeli national culture that demands the elimination of Arab identity. For this music suggests possibilities of remembering and “re-presenting” this partially-repressed element. Moreover, the experience of remembering Arab music represents, more than anything else, the diasporic attitude of the Mizraḥim (Oriental Jews). It demonstrates a common legacy that Israeli culture is unwilling to accept and understand. Extrication from the boundaries of Zionist culture (which has historically rejected the diasporic past and its cultures, especially the Arab-Jewish past) manifests itself, …
Notes On Contributors, Molly Lynde-Recchia
A Selection From The Chieko Poems By Takamura Kōtarō, Leanne Ogasawara
A Selection From The Chieko Poems By Takamura Kōtarō, Leanne Ogasawara
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No abstract provided.
Four Poems From House Of Razor Blades By Linda Maria Baros, Kathryn Kimball
Four Poems From House Of Razor Blades By Linda Maria Baros, Kathryn Kimball
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No abstract provided.
An Axe Falling On A Blind Statue By Mohamed Fouad, Nina Youkhanna
An Axe Falling On A Blind Statue By Mohamed Fouad, Nina Youkhanna
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No abstract provided.
Three Poems From Flowing Toward Serenity By Tan Xiao, Xinlu Yan
Three Poems From Flowing Toward Serenity By Tan Xiao, Xinlu Yan
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Tan Xiao is a Chinese poet whose poetry examines the relationships between an individual and his or her family, traditions, and society as a whole. The language he uses is deceptively simple, but the poignant observations and insights ensure that his poetry is relevant and relatable. This article includes three poems by Tan and accompanying commentary.
Five Poems From Born Into By Uwe Kolbe, Louise Stoehr
Five Poems From Born Into By Uwe Kolbe, Louise Stoehr
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Uwe Kolbe is one of the major German poets of his generation. Both part of the dissident scene in East Germany and, at the same time, fiercely independent, he early on reworked literary tradition, detailed observation, and personal experience into poems that clearly express his own poetic vision in a distinct voice. Born October 17, 1957, in East Berlin, Kolbe was drawn to writing at a young age. He published his first volume of poetry, Hineingeboren (Born Into), in the former German Democratic Republic in 1980 and in 1982 in West Germany. “Hineingeboren” has become Kolbe’s signature poem …
Autumn By Jules Breton, Sharon Fish Mooney
Autumn By Jules Breton, Sharon Fish Mooney
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Translation of Autumn by Jules Breton with commentary.
Martial Vii.61 By Martial, George Held