Wail of the Arab beggars of the Casbah /

Wail of the Arab beggars of the Casbah /

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Author / Creator:	Aït Djafer, Ismaël, 1929-1955.
Uniform title:	Complainte des mendiants arabes de la Casbah et de la petite Yasmina tuée par son père. English & French
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, ©2004.
Description:	viii, 63 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English French
Subject:	Algerian poetry (French) Revolutionary poetry, Algerian (French) Beggars. Poor. Algerian poetry (French) Beggars. Poor. Revolutionary poetry, Algerian (French)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11939955

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Other authors / contributors:	Hirschman, Jack, 1933-
ISBN:	1880684969 9781880684962
Notes:	Poem. English and French on facing pages.
Summary:	"Ait Djafer's long poem Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah is an underground classic written during the French oppression of Algeria. On October 20, 1949, in the city of Algiers, Khouni Ahmed, a tubercular beggar, is walking along Rue Franklin Roosevelt. He hasn't eaten. He's holding his little daughter, Yasmina, 9, by the hand. A truck approaches. Suddenly, he pushes the child at the wheels. As she doesn't die, he pushes her a second time ... Prosecuted two years later in criminal court, Ahmed is declared insane and committed to an asylum. As Jack Hirschman comments in his introduction, these events "inspired the writing, in the French language, of one of the most important poems of the 20th century, the Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah. Dedicated to 'those who have never been hungry, ' the poem was written by a 22-year-old student, Ismael Ait Djafer. It was printed in a small pamphlet edition by the Democratic Union for a Free Algeria in 1951. Its circulation was largely local; but in 1954 Jean Paul Sartre published it in his Paris magazine, Les Temps Modernes; and in 1960, the year of Algerian independence from French colonial rule, it was published in book form by Pierre Jean Oswald Editions.""--Jacket.
Other form:	Online version: Aït Djafer, Ismaël, 1929-1955. Complainte des mendiants arabes de la Casbah et de la petite Yasmina tuée par son père. English & French. Wail of the Arab beggars of the Casbah. 1st ed. Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, ©2004

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Call Number:	PQ3989.2.A3663 C6613 2004
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