Imagining a Poetics of Loss: Building Communities in the Works of Joy Harjo and Saadi Youssef
| Autor: | Bayan Al-Dahiyat, Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol 45, Iss 2, Pp 134-153 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2043-6920 0271-3519 |
| DOI: | 10.13169/arabstudquar.45.2.0134 |
| Popis: | This article aims at showing how the poetry of Joy Harjo and Saadi Youssef becomes the imagined geography of the Muscogee (Creek) nation and Iraq respectively. Despite the different contexts of struggle, both poets depict a national community through imagining a decolonized geographical space where intellectuals and poetry act as witnesses to defy the colonial erasure of memory. This article will attempt to highlight certain intellectual and literary texts that take active part in imagining and presenting an anti-colonial counter discourse that would lead to a new understanding of national identity and nation. It will rely on Bill Ashcroft’s theory of Postcolonial Utopianism and building imagined homelands as well as Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities. Representative poems from the two poets, Joy Harjo and Saadi Youssef, will be examined in order to shed light on the theoretical and imaginative creation of nations. |
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