Hijra /

"In her third poetry collection, Hijra, Hala Alyan creates poems of migration and flight reflecting and bearing witness to the haunting particulars in her transnational journey as well as those of her mother, her mother's sister, the lost aunts of her father in Gaza, and her Syrian grandmo...

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Main Author: Alyan, Hala, 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Series:Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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520 |a "In Islam, hijra refers to the Prophet Muhammad's departure from Mecca to Medina; the term has come to mean any exodus. Bearing witness to the testimony of immigration--not only the poet's but also that of her family--the poems in the collection create a dialogue between the two worlds of migration"--  |c Provided by publisher 
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505 0 |a Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Ancestry -- Part One -- Before the Revolt -- New Year -- Aria -- Wedding -- Alchemy -- The Children -- Invasion -- Marriage -- Rapture in Absentia -- The Youngest Wife -- Hijra -- The Prophecy -- Part Two -- Budur -- Azra -- Khadija -- Seham -- Maysam -- Lujayn -- Hadeel -- Reema -- Zaynab -- Yasmin -- Lamis -- Amna -- Sana -- Fatima -- Afra -- Part Three -- Meals -- Asylum -- First Winter -- Plumage -- In the City of Fire -- Idols -- The Letter Home -- Asking for the Daughter -- Retrieval -- Diaspora -- Part Four -- Foliage -- Hamra -- Marrow -- Salat -- Mania -- Bandits -- Scripts -- Solarium -- Exile Nocturne -- Riots -- Transatlantic -- Chirophobia -- Forecasting -- Lions -- Acknowledgments -- Back Cover. 
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