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From Home and Nationalism to Transnationalism: A Study of Contemporary Poetry by Arab and American Women Poets | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 619-656 | ||
| Authors | ||
| ; Wafaa Abdulaali | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT This paper studies selected contemporary poems by women-poets from the Arab and American worlds that tackle the idea of “home,” or country, nation and nationalism in times of terror as the focal point. The women-poets, whether writing in Arabic or in English, as a native language, cannot avoid delving into the politics of the time. In such poetry, politics and poetics converge. Arab women-poets sing the love of home and the Nation, American women-poets question the idea of their country staging wars abroad, and condemn what they see their country’s unethical interference in other nations’ business, ousting this regime, supporting another, in the name of nationalism/patriotism. Unlike their Arab peers, the American women-poets condemn nationalism/patriotism. The paper takes the comparative approach as a springboard, to conclude that women-poets’ political poetry is a gendered genre of outrage, of resistance, a tool of fight. | ||
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