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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog alternative "Complainte des mendiants arabes de la Casbah. English & French".
- catalog contributor b13225446.
- catalog contributor b13225447.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "viii, 63 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Wail of the Arab beggars of the Casbah.".
- catalog identifier "1880684969 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Wail of the Arab beggars of the Casbah.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "Parallel text in English and French.".
- catalog language "eng fre fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press,".
- catalog relation "Wail of the Arab beggars of the Casbah.".
- catalog subject "841/.914 22".
- catalog subject "Algerian poetry (French)".
- catalog subject "Beggars.".
- catalog subject "PQ3989.2.D536 C66 2004".
- catalog subject "Poor.".
- catalog subject "Revolutionary poetry, Algerian (French)".
- catalog title "Complainte des mendiants arabes de la Casbah. English & French".
- catalog title "Wail of the Arab beggars of the Casbah : poems / by Ismaël Aït Djafer ; translated by Jack Hirschman.".
- catalog type "text".