Arabic Literature

Analyzing Poem Series “Looking at You” (Andhor Elaik) by Maram al-Masri Based on Existentialist Feminism

Farhad Rajabi; Fatemeh Parchegani

Volume 10, Issue 1 , June 2018, , Pages 91-107

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2018.223504.611615

Abstract

The last years of the twentieth century were the end of a period in Arabic poetry where poets were using clear or mysterious symbols to express their views. Yet the new period in Arabic ... Read More The last years of the twentieth century were the end of a period in Arabic poetry where poets were using clear or mysterious symbols to express their views. Yet the new period in Arabic poetry, made it possible for a mainstream in Arabic poetry, and poets tends to resort to simplicity and avoiding symbolic language as they offer noticeable vision relevant to facts of life with reservation of humane poem. However, the current era paved the way an Arab poetry, namely simplicity and avoidance of the symbolic language of ambiguity, as poets provide a vision associated with life realities while preserving the humane message of poetry. On the other hand, the evolution of relationship between human consciousness on the one hand and between art and literature on the other has deepened the meanings inherent in literary works, where we feel an attempt to present meanings more simply than before. This relationship helps facilitate the introduction of this human consciousness first, while influencing the expansion of vision in the field of poetry at the same time; and also contributes to the development of literature and poetry. One example of this claim is contemporary Syrian poet Maram al-Masri’s poetry. Masri has a new and varied face in the meaning. Maram Al-Masri, a Syrian poet, is considered a poet who tries to enrich readers with life experience as a woman in her poems specifically in "Looking at You." So we can analyze these series as a feminist poetry also, we are going to analyze it in accordance with the views of the existentialist feminism for "Simone de Beauvoir”. The results show that the poet was able to express her Eastern and Western experiences utilizing easy language while maintaining the technical framework in a different space. Also poet tries to visualize these experiences in her poems. Expression of despair of active presence of women in society and life, the identity crisis, social concerns and search for the establishment of unity between itself and other is one of the main axes in the reflection of experience of the poet.

Women in Resistance Literature of Lebanon: al-Wusul

Narges Ansari

Volume 10, Issue 1 , June 2018, , Pages 161-178

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2018.208860.611481

Abstract

As a branch of committed literature, literature of religious resistance has chosen poetry in order to convey its concepts and ideas rather than prose. The contemporary prominent religious ... Read More

The study of cultural and social place of yesterday Arab woman in pictorial language layers and structures imagery

Rouhollah Sayyadi Nezhad

Volume 8, Issue 1 , September 2016, , Pages 221-240

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.60172

Abstract

Language is the product of Cultural interaction and producing various languages different cultures manifest the world in many forms.Language and culture are connected with each other ... Read More

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Analyzing Poem Series “Looking at You” (Andhor Elaik) by Maram al-Masri Based on Existentialist Feminism

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Women in Resistance Literature of Lebanon: al-Wusul

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The study of cultural and social place of yesterday Arab woman in pictorial language layers and structures imagery

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