scholarly journals The Poetry of Darwish in the 1960s: Homeland and Exile

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajar Mahfoodh
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
Conversational Style ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
At Home

The early poetry of Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) is characterised by its overt resistance and confrontational tone against the Israeli forces. This research paper explores the themes of homeland and exile in Darwish’s poetry during the 1960s, tracing how the 1967 defeat has changed his poetic tone from the highly confrontational to the articulate conversational. It, therefore, contributes to the fields of literary criticism and Arab literary studies focusing on modern poetry of resistance. Although Darwish was still living on Palestinian lands during this period, he never felt at home, expressing his feelings of strangeness and suffering in a usurped land by force. The theoretical framework of Edward Said (1935-2003) is employed in this paper to question whether the themes of exile and homeland shape and reshape the Darwish’s understanding of resistance. Based on the analyses of this paper, Darwish’s poetry of resistance has dramatically changed due to his severe disappointment by the 1967 defeat, marking the collapse of Arab nationalism and its propaganda of the Arab homeland. Still, this shift does not affect Darwish’s rejection of the Israeli existence in Palestine. Instead, his poetry by the end of this decade still questions the violent and aggressive nature of the Israeli soldier despite Darwish’s intimate and human conversational style of his poems, thereby adding to the controversial analyses of Darwish’s poetics.

scholarly journals The Poetry of Darwish in the 1960s: Homeland and Exile

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
Hajar Mahfoodh
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
Conversational Style ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
At Home

The early poetry of Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) is characterised by its overt resistance and confrontational tone against the Israeli forces. This research paper explores the themes of homeland and exile in Darwish’s poetry during the 1960s, tracing how the 1967 defeat has changed his poetic tone from the highly confrontational to the articulate conversational. It, therefore, contributes to the fields of literary criticism and Arab literary studies focusing on modern poetry of resistance. Although Darwish was still living on Palestinian lands during this period, he never felt at home, expressing his feelings of strangeness and suffering in a usurped land by force. The theoretical framework of Edward Said (1935-2003) is employed in this paper to question whether the themes of exile and homeland shape and reshape the Darwish’s understanding of resistance. Based on the analyses of this paper, Darwish’s poetry of resistance has dramatically changed due to his severe disappointment by the 1967 defeat, marking the collapse of Arab nationalism and its propaganda of the Arab homeland. Still, this shift does not affect Darwish’s rejection of the Israeli existence in Palestine. Instead, his poetry by the end of this decade still questions the violent and aggressive nature of the Israeli soldier despite Darwish’s intimate and human conversational style of his poems, thereby adding to the controversial analyses of Darwish’s poetics.

Nasser's Gamble

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Arab Spring

This book draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser later referred to as “my Vietnam.” The book argues that Nasser's attempt to export the Egyptian revolution to Yemen played a decisive role in destabilizing Egypt's relations with the Cold War powers, tarnishing its image in the Arab world, ruining its economy, and driving its rulers to instigate the fatal series of missteps that led to war with Israel in 1967. Viewing the Six Day War as an unintended consequence of the Saudi–Egyptian struggle over Yemen, the book demonstrates that the most important Cold War conflict in the Middle East was not the clash between Israel and its neighbors. It was the inter-Arab struggle between monarchies and republics over power and legitimacy. Egypt's defeat in the “Arab Cold War” set the stage for the rise of Saudi Arabia and political Islam. Bold and provocative, this book brings to life a critical phase in the modern history of the Middle East. Its compelling analysis of Egypt's fall from power in the 1960s offers new insights into the decline of Arab nationalism, exposing the deep historical roots of the Arab Spring of 2011.

SOUND, MEANING AND MUSIC-DRAMA IN LACHENMANN'S DAS MÄDCHEN MIT DEN SCHWEFELHÖLZERN

Tempo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (268) ◽  
pp. 20-33
Author(s):  
Laurence Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Musique Concrete ◽  
Cultural Baggage

AbstractThis article argues that Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern demonstrates a unique approach to music-drama that stems from the perceptual capacities of listeners, and their desire to search for meaning in what they hear. Beginning with the claim that Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern can be viewed as the culmination of an aesthetic project begun at the point of Lachenmann's emergence as a distinctive voice of the European avant-garde during the 1960s, the article first examines two major aspects of Lachenmann's aesthetics – musique concrète instrumentale and aura – outlining a composing philosophy that has been at the heart of Lachenmann's practice throughout his career. The article claims that Lachenmann sought to establish a rejuvenated semiotics, freed from cultural baggage and tied to the perceptual and cognitive capacities of listeners. Drawing upon the studies of Naomi Cumming and Luke Windsor, it outlines a theoretical framework that takes into account this composing philosophy and its implications, applying it in analyses of various excerpts from Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern. My analysis illuminates a music-drama that forms around the interplay of internally represented images and sensations, the emergence of which is facilitated by a musical language that prepares sounds to take on certain types of meaning. The article concludes with a brief discussion of the possible implications this has for audience members.

براہوئی ادب ‘ ادبی ادارہ او نوشتوک آتا کڑد

Al-Burz ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-142
Author(s):  
Nilofer Usman ◽  
Dr.Liaquat Ali Sani ◽  
Yousaf Rodeni
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Literary Circles

This research article describes the role of Brahui literary circles, which have played a vital role for the preservation and promotion of Brahui Language, Literature and build a literary tendency. This paper also shows how the internal disagreement between learned established new literary circles. Few prominent personalities like  Noor Muhammad Parwana, Nawab Ghaus Bakhsh Raisani, Babo Abudl Rehman Kurd, Abdul Rehman Brahui, Syed Kamal al-Qadri and others have initiated this work in Brahui literary history. Now more the two dozen registered and non-registered Brahui literary originations working for betterment of Brahui literature. Every origination has set their separate Moto and vision, few of them promote Brahui Modern poetry few have introduced new literary tendencies, few have urged that criticism is better for new thoughts and new trend in Brahui literature. This research paper helps to understand the different periods in Brahui literature in context of Brahui originations. A descriptive research method will have been adopted to conclude this paper.

FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC-THEORETICAL RESEARCH OF ALISHER NAVOI’S HERITAGE(ON THE PAGES OF AZERBAIJANI LITERATURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-152
Author(s):  
Almaz Ulvi Bi̇nnatova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
History Of

The research work named “From the history of scientific-theoretical research of Alisher Navoi’s heritage (on the pages of Azerbaijani literature and literary criticism)” was grouped in several directions. In the systematic research within the sections named - 1. “The influence of Alisher Navoiy’s creativity on Azerbaijani literature”, 2. “The influence of Azerbaijani literature on the creativity of Alisher Navoiy”, 3. “Studying of Alisher Navoiy’s legacy in Azerbaijani literary studies

The Postcolonial Aesthetic

PMLA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-503
Author(s):  
Simon During
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Political Identities

Postcolonialism emerged as a field within literary studies during the 1980s as part of the discipline's general restructuring. That restructuring has, perhaps, been insufficiently acknowledged by the profession, and at any rate there seems to be little consensus as to its significance and shape. But it seems undeniable that, during the 1980s, literary criticism ceased to ground itself on its attention to its objects' literary qualities or on its efforts to establish convincing literary judgments about them. It turned rather to thinking about literature as, for instance, a vehicle of cultural-political identities, or as a resistance to ideology, or, more neutrally, as articulated into broader signifying or social structures.

Resisting Colonialism through Nature: An Ecopostcolonial Reading of Mahmoud Darwish's Selected Poems

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamoud Yahya Ahmed ◽  
Ruzy Suliza Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Theories Of Reading ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Opening Up

Resisting colonialism remains the main theme of the poetry of the Arab Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. This paper explores how Darwish employs nature as a new way for resisting the occupation of his homeland. His poems, throughout his writing life that spans fifty years, can be used to demonstrate how an ecopostcolonial perspective might contribute to an understanding of the poet's resistance through nature to the colonisers in his homeland. The theoretical framework used in this study is derived from both the ecocritical and postcolonial theories of reading literature. It is termed as ecoresistance as a new perspective of analysing resistance in the Arab literary studies, a non-western viewpoint and an original analytical lens for reading Darwish's work. The analysis reveals that Darwish uses the various forms of nature that range from the forms of the pure nature to the forms that have been cultivated. Through the ecopostcolonial perspective of the study, the employment of nature for resistance and the indication of Darwish as an ecopostcolonial poet of the Arab world are played out. The paper further proposes new insights into man's connection to land and is a step towards opening up the field of ecocriticism as a way of reading Arab poetry of resistance.

The Comfort Theory as a Theoretical Framework Applied to a Clinical Case of Hospital at Home

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 228-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Puchi ◽  
Tatiana Paravic-Klijn ◽  
Alide Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Case ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Hospital At Home ◽  
Comfort Theory ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals A Feminist Review of John Dramani Mahama’s My First Coup D’etat: Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Gladys Agyeiwaa Denkyi –Manieson
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Coup D'etat

This essay examines the portrayal of women in John Dramani Mahama’s My First Coup D’etat: Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa (2012). The essay contends that subtly My First Coup D’etat expresses ideas of patriarchy, misogyny and masculinity. A feminist reading of work pays attention to images, themes, expressions, motifs and many other factors that are embedded in the text. An examination of the portrayal of women in male narratives is a worthwhile exercise as it helps establish gender ideologies for female empowerment. A paper like this stretches the dimension of psycho-critical literary studies which pays attention to the interplay between consciousness and unconsciousness in life narratives. Life narratives is an accumulation of layered propositions, interpretation of which are discernible by critical literary studies, like this research paper.

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