A Cultural Ecological Reading of Human-Nature Interconnectivity in Mahmoud Darwish’s “The Second Olive Tree” | ||||
| مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2023, Page 94-109 PDF (1.13 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jssa.2022.169039.1438 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Nahed Meklash 
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| قسم اللغة الانجليزية-كلية التربية-جامعة مطروح-محافظة مرسى مطروح | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The aesthetic is considered in modern ecocriticism. This article reads the olive tree metaphor in Mahmoud Darwish’s “The Second Olive Tree” to argue that neither the anthropocentric approach of human-centeredness nor the biocentric one of nature-centeredness is proper to depicting the indissoluble interconnectedness between binaries such as nature/culture, matter/mind, and human/non-human worlds. So, in light of the cultural ecology of Hubert Zapf, this paper proposes ecocultural reading as a solution to the dualistic views of these binaries. Such a reading acknowledges the mutual relationship between nature and culture, mind and matter, and human and non-human worlds as well as their dynamic and evolutionary interrelationships. At the same time, this reading does not cross the boundaries between them. It is also a way of cultural self-renewal when empowering marginalized or excluded interconnected patterns and of imaginative counter-discourses of this dualistic approach. Furthermore, the cultural ecology paradigm, as a transdisciplinary undertaking, contributes to ecocriticism and environmental humanitiess. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Cultural ecology; interconnectedness; double paradoxical approach; Mahmoud Darwish; Palestinian poetry; Hubert Zapf | ||||
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