Exile and Nostalgia in Albanian Lyric Poetry since 1750

Genelde Arnavut edebiyatı ve özelde de Arnavut şiiri Balkan'ların dışına taşan bir akademik ilgiyesahip olmuştur; ancak halen okuyucu ve eleştirmenlere bu edebiyatın sunacakları çoktur. İngilizce yazanAmavutbilimcilerden Robert Elsie yapmış olduğu çeviriler ve politik, kültürel, tarihsel ve bireysel yazanbir çok yazar hakkındaki eleştirileriyle Arnavut edebiyatmı çalışan bir kaç kişiden biridir. Ancak, bir çoktarihsel dönem ve coğrafi bölgeden gelen edebi metinlerin konularını ve şiirsel özelliklerini konu edinençalışma halen çok azdır. Bu çalışma işte bu gereksinimi temellendirmeyi hedeflemektedir. Arnavut ede--biyatmın başlangıcmdan günümüze kadar yazılmış şiirlerin incelenmesiyle sürgün ve nostalji konularınaodaklanan bu çalışma Arnavut edebiyatmın kolonicilik ve bağımsızlığa yurt içi ve dışmda yaşayan Arnavutlartarafmdan bakışmı ele almaktadır.

1750 'den Bugüne Arnavut Lirik Şiirinde Sürgün ve Nostalji

Albanian literature in general and poetry in particular has received little scholarly attentionoutside the Balkans, and yet this literature has much to offer reader and critic alike. Robert Elsie, one ofthe few Albanologists working in English, has brought attention to Albanian literature by way of severalbooks of translation as well as critical works on politics, culture, history and individual authors. There isas yet no significant body of literary criticism which analyzes broad thematic trends and poetic memes intexts from variety of periods and places. This essay seeks to serve as foundation for this kind ofsynthetic scholarship. Through close readings of poems from the beginnings of Albanian literature to todayon the inter--related themes of exile and nostalgia, this work emphasizes the evolution of Albanianattitudes about colonization and independence as they are viewed from at home and in the diaspora.

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