Agha Shahid Ali and Contemporary World Poetry

  • M. L. Raina
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Abstract

This chapter analyses the politics in the poetics of Agha Shahid Ali’s works and argues for a firm place for his oeuvre in world poetry. It also contends that in spite of Ali participating in the transnational poetics as understood by Jahan Ramazani , and in spite of his well-grounded understanding of the western poetic canon and his use of several Western forms and meters, he is essentially and irrevocably a poet whose poetic energies invariably return to their roots in Kashmir with its legacies of Sufi lore and uncluttered religious wisdom.

Keywords

Agha Shahid Ali World poetry Sufi poetry Kashmiri literature Transnational poetics 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • M. L. Raina
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  1. 1.ChandigarhIndia

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