Expression of Arab Identity in the Poetry of Three Al-Mahjar Women Poets: Etel Adnan, Nathalie Handal and Dunya Mikhail
Mariam Magdi Nasif Morcos;
Abstract
Palestinian, Lebanese and Iraqi political situations reflect the essential Arab concerns that affect the past, present and future regional and international political scene. In this regard, the poetry of Etel Adnan, Nathalie Handal and Dunya Mikhail stands for the voice of suppressed Arab women in Al Mahjar experience which approaches various respects of Arab political and feminist orientations. Their concept of Arab identity presents a poetic treatment of traumatic war, spiritual forbearance, celebration of Arab cultural heritage, feminist assertion and revolutionary and peaceful endeavors. Their verse escalates an expressionistic disappointingly-hopeful deliverance of a unique paradoxical experience which touches upon an Arab aspiration in the middle of a chaotic milieu of clashing upheavals. This thesis includes five chapters and a conclusion.
Chapter I: Introduction and Overview: Al-Mahjar Experience and Arab Women analyzes the Arab-American literary background of “Al-Mahjar experience”, delineating the effect of Arab writers , critics, pioneers and contemporaries on the poetic accomplishments of Adnan, Handal and Mikhail, within the scope of expressionistic political and feminist context of identity. Also, it highlights the Lebanese, Palestinian and Iraqi historical framework which underlines the poetic works of the three poets.
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Chapter II: The Concept of War and Gothic Vision spotlights the Gothic atmosphere which represents the horrific experience of war on the different folkloric, scientific, linguistic, psychological, historical, political, economic and social levels.
Chapter III: Arab Identity and Poetic Narration discusses how the content of Arab identity is expressed through the employment of tools of prose like "myths", “setting”, "characterization", "dialogue", "stream of consciousness", “flash-back” and “climax” which deliver a political epiphany of an aspiring assertion of Arab legacy.
Chapter IV: Shades and Shapes of Feminist Expression elaborates critically on the visual portraits to which the three poets apply a mixture of colors and words to convey their feminist vision.
Chapter V: Arabism and Revolutionary Endeavors approaches the concept of Arabism in respect to the most up-to-date Arab political revolutions and issues such as “negotiations”, “terrorism” and “peace settlement” which concern the whole world nowadays.
Conclusion encapsulates the essential results of the current critical research through, comparing, contrasting, summarizing and linking the important findings of each one of the previous chapters to substantiate for the expression of Arab identity in the poetry of Etel Adnan, Nathalie Handal and Dunya Mikhail.
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Chapter I: Introduction and Overview: Al-Mahjar Experience and Arab Women analyzes the Arab-American literary background of “Al-Mahjar experience”, delineating the effect of Arab writers , critics, pioneers and contemporaries on the poetic accomplishments of Adnan, Handal and Mikhail, within the scope of expressionistic political and feminist context of identity. Also, it highlights the Lebanese, Palestinian and Iraqi historical framework which underlines the poetic works of the three poets.
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Chapter II: The Concept of War and Gothic Vision spotlights the Gothic atmosphere which represents the horrific experience of war on the different folkloric, scientific, linguistic, psychological, historical, political, economic and social levels.
Chapter III: Arab Identity and Poetic Narration discusses how the content of Arab identity is expressed through the employment of tools of prose like "myths", “setting”, "characterization", "dialogue", "stream of consciousness", “flash-back” and “climax” which deliver a political epiphany of an aspiring assertion of Arab legacy.
Chapter IV: Shades and Shapes of Feminist Expression elaborates critically on the visual portraits to which the three poets apply a mixture of colors and words to convey their feminist vision.
Chapter V: Arabism and Revolutionary Endeavors approaches the concept of Arabism in respect to the most up-to-date Arab political revolutions and issues such as “negotiations”, “terrorism” and “peace settlement” which concern the whole world nowadays.
Conclusion encapsulates the essential results of the current critical research through, comparing, contrasting, summarizing and linking the important findings of each one of the previous chapters to substantiate for the expression of Arab identity in the poetry of Etel Adnan, Nathalie Handal and Dunya Mikhail.
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| Title | Expression of Arab Identity in the Poetry of Three Al-Mahjar Women Poets: Etel Adnan, Nathalie Handal and Dunya Mikhail | Other Titles | التعبير عن الهوية العربية فى شعر ثلاثة من نساء المهجر: إيتل عدنان، نتالى حنظل ودنيا ميخائيل | Authors | Mariam Magdi Nasif Morcos | Issue Date | 2015 |
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