Geographies of Memory: Exile, Displacement, and Cultural Identity in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Mahmoud Darwish | ||
| مجلة مرکز حضارات البحر المتوسط | ||
| Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 31-53 PDF (282.21 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/midcul.2025.415019 | ||
| Author | ||
| Amro Nassar | ||
| قسم اللغة الإنجليزية - كلية الآداب - جامعة سوهاج | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Exile and displacement have long been central themes in poetry, offering a rich context for exploring issues of identity, belonging and the relationship between self and place. This study aims at presenting a close reading of selected poems of Seamus Heaney and Mahmoud Darwish which will demonstrate the ways in which each poet defines and represents exile and dislocation, as well as how this representation engages with broader themes along with memory and resistance through tradition. One will consider how Heaney and Darwish's explorations of exile and displacement contribute to and challenge existing understandings of concepts of memory, exile, displacement and resistance. Furthermore, one will investigate how their poetry serves as a medium for preserving cultural memory and as a form of resistance against forces of erasure and oppression, in regards to the theory of cultural memory and the concept of resistance literature in postcolonial theory. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| memory; cultural identity exile; displacement; post-colonial; Darwish and Heaney | ||
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