Looking Back at al-Andalus
Looking Back at al-AndalusAlexander Elinson
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Looking Back at al-Andalus

Looking Back at al-Andalus The Poetics of Loss and Nostalgia in Medieval Arabic and Hebrew Literature

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Through an examination of a variety of literary genres composed in Arabic and Hebrew, this book examines the literary definition of al-Andalus by taking into account the role of memory, language, and literary convention in analyses of texts composed following cultural and political challenges to Arab hegemony in the Iberian Peninsula.