Tag: migration

• The Graph of a Cry

  

  My dissertation is available as a book for academics, libraries, and those who are interested to read more about the phenomenal journey of the American ghazal. This dissertation analyzes the journey of the ancient Arabic poetic form of the ghazal to America to provide insights into transnational poetry and cultural mobility. While the movement of…

  Diligent Candy

  13 Aug 2022

  Academic, Art, Awareness, Books, dissertation, diversity, Education, Gender, Personal is Political, phd, Poetry, Read, research, Story, Travel

  Academic, Adrienne Rich, Agha Shahid Ali, american ghazal, amrita das, arabia, Book, borders, cultural mobility, diederik oostdijk, dissertation, erin la cour, form, Gazelle, ghazals, India, intersectionality, ipskamp, jahan ramazani, literary history, literature, love, lyric, male, Marilyn Hacker, melancholy, migration, minorities, Mirza Ghalib, movement, patriarchy, persia, phd, poetic form, Poetry, representation, research, transnational, transnational poetry, Travel, traveling poetry

• My ardas to the ghazal

  

  The ghazal At the university they said, “Oh you should study the ghazal” Perfectly plucked you will understand the nuances of the ghazal My grandfather told me stories that spread beyond words Murdered during partition, the border bled the ghazal I work in corporate communications – I sat with a grant for academics I don’t…

  Diligent Candy

  13 Feb 2013

  Poetry

  academia, Ghazal, history, India, integration, love, migration, transnational