[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reference: Gimeno Martin, J.C. y al (2020) Poetas y poesía del Sáhara Occidental. Antropología de la poesía nacional saharaui. Spain: Ultima linea.
Summary:
“This book is an extraordinary work that makes known the Saharawi poets. Invisible, making them known is, in itself, a valuable contribution to the decolonization of Eurocentric literature. However, this book goes further, for three main reasons: Firstly, the Saharawi poets wrote in Hassania, a variant of the Arabic language spoken by the Saharawis, and were translated into Spanish by the Saharawi poets of the Friendship Generation who write poetry in Spanish. The translation in this case is a remarkable exercise in hospitality between languages, in intercultural translation. Secondly, the book is the result of a collaborative research project with the participation of a group of Saharawi social and cultural activists and Saharawi and Spanish social scientists. The presentations of the poets are brilliant texts, stories of lives and of poets that constitute an eloquent and convincing exercise in the ecology of knowledge. Thirdly, this book is an exercise in political responsibility by university researchers who conceive their work as an acquaintance with the Saharawi people and not as an acquaintance about the Saharawi people. It represents an extraordinary work of internationalist cooperation. In this sense, it becomes a knowledge born in the struggle and, therefore, a knowledge of the epistemologies of the South. For these reasons, this book is almost unique in its kind. I don’t think there is any better reason to strongly recommend its reading” – Boaventura de Sousa Santos[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]INDEX
Preface, For a Desert Epistemology. . . . . . . . . . 11
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Saharan poetry, nomadic poetry and universal poetry,
world heritage site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín, Bahia Mahmud Awah
and Mohamed Ali Leman
Mohamed Salem Uld Abdelahe, Badi… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Dean of the Saharawi Poets
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Mohamed Moulud Uld Budi Uld El Hach, Beibuh. . . . . . . . 99
Poet of the fatherland and the people
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Ljadra Mint Mabruk Uld Daaf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
The poetess with the rifle
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Alal Uld Daf Uld Did. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Recommendations of a poet
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Sidi Brahim Uld Salama Uld Eydud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Homeland and Memory
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Bachir Uld Ali Uld Abderrahman… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
The poet of the Revolution and Saharan nationalism
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Ahmed Uld Mahmud Uld Omar… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
The Zemur Master
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Hosein Uld Moulud Uld Mohamed Salem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Homeland: legacy, beauty and commitment
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Mustafa Uld El Bar, Uld Abdedayem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Connecting the generations
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Hasin Uld Brahim Uld Mohamed… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
The meaning dictated by a poet’s conscience
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Commitment to the cause
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Bunana Uld Abdelhay Uld Ahmed Uld Buseif . . . . . . . . . . . 399
A look at the Tiris
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Jadiyetu Mint Aleiyat Uld Suelam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
The Poetess of the Intifada
Poems… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Breaking a complicit silence:
learning to listen to the Sahara in his poetry… . . . . . . . . . 451
Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín and Juan Ignacio Robles Picón[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]