The Poet and Identity: A Critical Reading of Identity and Belonging in Mahmud Darwish's Poetry
Mahmood Ayed Atiya
Mosul University, College of Education for Women, Depart. Of Arabic Language.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.2.12
Keywords: - identity - core - the hidden - the apparent - Mahmud Darwish
Abstract
A new literary and critical phenomenon emerged lately after the
appearance of globalization and it attracted the attention of Arab
critics and scholars because it raises a question about the position of
Arabic literature and thought in the contemporary intellectual milieu.
It also indicated that an intellectual crisis is at hand which may drive
the Arab intellectual to the verge on the unknown creating disorder
and confusion in his thinking by trying to thrust him into the turmoil
of the information technological revolution, driving him to forget his
past under the pretext of the demise of ideology, self-denial, freedom
and awareness. In the field of literature and literary criticism, these
nomenclatures produced new literary and critical movements which
did not belong to a particular identity; on the contrary, they were
close to unconsciousness and absorbed in unawareness and
irresponsibility which contributed to man's loss of identity. These
thoughts caused the vanishing of many principles and values of the
Arabs. However, literature as an enormous organism of values
retained some of them that upkept the spirit of belonging and showed
the importance of identity as thought and practice which are able to
bring originality back to maintain the Arabian poet's attitude to
