State of Emergency - Couverture rigide

Guemar, Soleiman Adel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1904614663 ISBN 13 : 9781904614661

Editeur : Arc Publications, 2007

Synopsis

Rooted in Algerian experience, "State of Emergency" speaks of urgent concerns everywhere - oppression, resistance, state violence, traumas and private dreams. Soleiman Adel Guemar's poetry sings of life's sensual pleasures in the face of the grotesque morbidity of violent political repression. In her introduction to this collection, Lisa Appignanesi writes: "Soleiman Adel Guemar is almost exactly as old as the independent Republic of Algeria. He has witnessed its terrible history, the crimes against humanity which attended its birth and the enduring 'state of emergency' under which life has been blighted ever since. This volume marks an important moment: a record from the inside of a history which is too palpably of our times".She also writes: "Where before we had only newspaper headlines, stereotypical Algerians, or the dry, if conscientious, reports of NGOs, we now have a living voice, both political and lyrical - an intensely individual voice which speaks out freely and traces the lineaments of a tragic history...His surly ironies have a fighter's edge, a tough beauty which ropes us in. Britain has inadvertently inherited a political poet of stature, one whose language sings whether he is attacking the face of grim authority or dreaming of that other asylum which is an imagined Algeria of peace. In the excellent translation by Tom Cheesman and John Goodby, Guemar's poems carry all their native force and brusque wit."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jean Boase-Beier is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Translation. She founded UEA’s MA in Literary Translation and ran it until 2015. Her academic work focuses particularly on translation, style and poetry, and especially on the translation of Holocaust poetry. Recent publications include A Critical Introduction to Translation Studies (2011, Bloomsbury) and Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust (2015, Bloomsbury). Current research, which follows on from a recent AHRC project ‘Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust’ is on the influence of Russian Formalism and Prague Structuralism on the thinking of Benjamin, Celan, Brecht and others. Jean Boase-Beier is also a translator of poetry from and into German and is the Translations Editor for Arc Publications.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Publications
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904614663
• ISBN 13: 9781904614661
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 166
• Éditeur: Boase-Beier Jean
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible