«Ciò che non ho potuto dire come pittore, l’ho detto come poeta, e ciò che non ho potuto dire come poeta, l’ho detto come romanziere». Ǧabrā Ibrāhīm Ǧabrā e i percorsi della creatività
Keywords:
Modernism, exile, creativity, innovation, identity
Abstract
Ǧabrā Ibrāhīm Ǧabrā, poet, novelist, painter, translator, literary and art critic, was one of the most significant figures in the Arab cultural landscape of the twentieth century. A Christian Palestinian exile in Iraq, he expressed the different aspects of himself through different means, each one supporting the other in a continuous creative effort. Author of short stories, novels and poems, he introduced into the Arabic culture works of Shakespeare, Beckett and Faulkner, and participated in the creation and development of the Arab Modernism both in literature and in painting. Member of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, he addressed the topic of identity, shaping a verbal and figurative aesthetics of the exile experience and the nation-building in an existentialist perspective, and promoting a progressive activism that has recovered the roots of civilization and tradition and was opposed to a quiescent traditionalism as one. Through a re-reading of what he produced dealing with various fields, this article aims to map the creative paths of Ǧabrā.
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Ǧabrā Ibrāhīm Ǧabrā, Untitled (dipinto a olio), 1947.
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ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., ‘Araq wa-qiṣaṣ uḫrā, Beirut, Dār al-ahliyya, 1956.
ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., al-Madār al-muġlaq, Beirut, al-Mu’assasa al- arabiyya li-ṭ-ṭibā a wa n-našr, 1964.
ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., Dhia al-Azzawi, Beirut, Gallery One, 1969.
ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., Ṣayyādūn fī šāri‘ ḍayyiq, Muḥammad ‘Aṣfūr (translation by), Beirut, Dār al-Ādāb, 1974.
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ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., MUNĪF ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān, ‘Ālam bilā ḫarā’iṭ, Beirut, al-Mu’assasa al- ‘arabiyya li-d-dirāsāt wa-n-našr, 1980.
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ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., al-Maǧmū‘āt aš-ši‘riyya al-kāmila, London, Riyad El-Rayyes Books, 1990.
ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., Aqni‘at al-ḥaqīqa wa-aqni‘at al-ḫayāl, Beirut, al-Mu’assasa al- ‘arabiyya li-d-dirāsāt wa-n-našr, 1992.
ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., as-Safīna, Beirut, Dār an-nahār, 1970, trad. it. di Monica Falsi, La nave, Roma, Jouvence, 1994.
ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., Arā kitāb ǧamīl: rasā’il Ǧabrā ilā Māhir al-Kayyāli (1981-1994), Māhir al-Kayyāli (ed.), Beirut, al-Mu’assasa al-‘arabiyya li-d-dirāsāt wa-n-našr, 1996.
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ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., Šāri‘ al-amīrāt: fuṣūl min sīra ḏātiyya, Beirut, Dār al-Ādāb, 2007.
ǦABRĀ, Ǧabrā I., al-Bi’r al-ūlā: fuṣūl min sīra ḏātiyya, London, Riyad El-Rayyes Books, 1987, trad. it. di Wasim Dahmash, I pozzi di Betlemme, Roma, Edizioni Q, 2015.
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JABRA, Jabra I., Hunters in a narrow street, London, Heinemann, 1960.
JABRA, Jabra I., “L’art irakien contemporain”, «Ishtar: Orient-Occident», 12-13 (1962), pp. 346-348.
JABRA, Jabra I., “Modern Arabic Literature and the West”, «Journal of Arabic Literature», 2 (1971), pp. 76-91.
JABRA, Jabra I., “The Palestinian Exile as Writer”, «Journal of Palestine Studies», 8.2 (Winter 1979), pp. 77-87.
JABRA, Jabra I., The Grass Roots of Iraqi Art, St. Helier, Wasit Graphic and Publishing, 1983.
JABRA, Jabra I., The ship, translation by Adnan Haydar and Roger Allen, Colorado Springs, Three Continents Press, 1985.
JABRA, Jabra I., A Celebration of Life. Essays on Literature and Art, Baghdad, Dar al-Ma’mun, 1988.
JABRA, Jabra I., The Journals of Sarab Affan, translation by Ghassan Nasr, Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 2007.
JAYYUSI, Salma Kh., “Modernist poetry in Arabic”, in Badawi (ed.), The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature - Modern Arabic Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 132-179.
KLEMM, Verena “Commitment, in modern Arabic literature”, in Kate FLEET, Gudrun KRÄMER, Denis MATRINGE, John NAWAS, Everett ROWSON (eds.) Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three Online, Leiden, Brill, 2007.
MEJCHER-ATASSI, Sonja, Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art: Three Case Studies: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Etel Adnan, Wiesbaden, Reichert, 2013.
MEYER, Stefan G., The Experimental Arabic Novel, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2001.
MUNĪF, ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān (ed.), al-Qalaq wa-tamǧīd al-ḥayāt: kitāb takrīm Ǧabrā Ibrāhīm Ǧabrā, Beirut, al-Mu’assasa al-‘arabiyya li-d-dirāsāt wa-n-našr, 1995.
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SIBILIO, Simone, Nakba. La memoria letteraria della catastrofe palestinese, Roma, Edizioni Q, 2013.
iyā’al-‘Azzāwī, Noah’s Ship (dipinto a olio), 1968.
iyā’al-‘Azzāwī, Scattered Words (dipinto a olio), 1971.
Ǧabrā Ibrāhīm Ǧabrā, Untitled (dipinto a olio), 1947.
Ǧabrā Ibrāhīm Ǧabrā, Self Portrait (dipinto a olio), 1946; Ǧabrā, The Girl and the Poppies (dipinto a olio), 1945.
Ǧawād Salīm, Liberty Monument (struttura in marmo e bronzo), Baghdad.
Fā’iq Ḥasan, Fisherman (dipinto a olio), 1958.
Ǧawād Salīm, The Gardener (dipinto a olio), ca. 1950.
Ǧabrā Ibrāhīm Ǧabrā, Ḥālat ḥulm (dipinto a olio), 1946. .
Aḍ- urūbī, Untitled (dipinto a gouache), 1960, in Modern Arab Masters, Grosvenor Gallery Catalogue, 2012, p. 30.
Jeff B. Harmon, Saddam’s Iraq (documentario), 1991.
Telepace Holy Land TV, Jabra, insolita mostra di pittura (video), 2013.
Published
2016-12-31
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Avallone, L. (2016). «Ciò che non ho potuto dire come pittore, l’ho detto come poeta, e ciò che non ho potuto dire come poeta, l’ho detto come romanziere». Ǧabrā Ibrāhīm Ǧabrā e i percorsi della creatività. Rhesis. International Journal of Linguistics, Philology and Literature, 7(2), 18-35. https://doi.org/10.13125/rhesis/5567
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