1 Abstract:
This paper seeks to explore the function of interdisciplinarity between Poetry and Mythology in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’ “The Phases of Anat” and how myth is employed to serve cultural and resistance purposes by means of creating and ascertaining identity through proposing and documenting a new version of the subaltern history that have been marginalized for decades in view of the capabilities of their powerful occupiers at all levels.
to serve supporting his people’s predicament by means of elevating the Palestinian issue to an international, rather a universal appeal that wouldn’t have been possible through another medium.
2 Essential Background: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
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It is used to cover glorious past, miserable present and a future full of anxieties, and it is, at the same breath, used to establish identity, culture and reaffirm existence of Palestinians in the history of this part of earth, and the original Anat provides a parallel myth to the one being used by the Israeli’s as an authentic part of their culture, and provides the original version of Anat as documented in the memory of Palestinians and the people of the entire region. It might also be an attempt to draw on similarities between human beings and their cultures, including the colonized and colonizer, and that subalterns also have their myths; and through this the Israeli might be able to sense the humanity of their Other. In addition, to the intensiveness in meaning and complication in form this myth adds up to the poem, the myth bestowed the poem its universal if not humanitarian appeal that makes it translatable to different languages and subject of interest to literary analysis and studying by many scholars and …show more content…
He is drawing the attention that there are many forged versions of Anat since there are many places in Israel named after the goddess. Darwish redeems his own culture by providing an alternative story of Anat that has been denied by the occupiers at one line, and creates parallels in the forces of memory and authenticity of history that is detailed in the everyday life of people, land, wells, water, rivers, prayers, etc… this kind of resistance against the narrative of the occupier is meant to confirm another identity and presence of the subaltern who are not powerful enough to write an official history. In his book Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said points to how imperialist regimes use tradition as a determinant of national identity, by means of seeking to produce “pure (even purged) images” constructed “of a privileged, genealogically useful past, a past in which we exclude unwanted elements, vestiges, narratives”, Said,
This paper seeks to explore the function of interdisciplinarity between Poetry and Mythology in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’ “The Phases of Anat” and how myth is employed to serve cultural and resistance purposes by means of creating and ascertaining identity through proposing and documenting a new version of the subaltern history that have been marginalized for decades in view of the capabilities of their powerful occupiers at all levels.
to serve supporting his people’s predicament by means of elevating the Palestinian issue to an international, rather a universal appeal that wouldn’t have been possible through another medium.
2 Essential Background: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
“Interdisciplinary Literary …show more content…
It is used to cover glorious past, miserable present and a future full of anxieties, and it is, at the same breath, used to establish identity, culture and reaffirm existence of Palestinians in the history of this part of earth, and the original Anat provides a parallel myth to the one being used by the Israeli’s as an authentic part of their culture, and provides the original version of Anat as documented in the memory of Palestinians and the people of the entire region. It might also be an attempt to draw on similarities between human beings and their cultures, including the colonized and colonizer, and that subalterns also have their myths; and through this the Israeli might be able to sense the humanity of their Other. In addition, to the intensiveness in meaning and complication in form this myth adds up to the poem, the myth bestowed the poem its universal if not humanitarian appeal that makes it translatable to different languages and subject of interest to literary analysis and studying by many scholars and …show more content…
He is drawing the attention that there are many forged versions of Anat since there are many places in Israel named after the goddess. Darwish redeems his own culture by providing an alternative story of Anat that has been denied by the occupiers at one line, and creates parallels in the forces of memory and authenticity of history that is detailed in the everyday life of people, land, wells, water, rivers, prayers, etc… this kind of resistance against the narrative of the occupier is meant to confirm another identity and presence of the subaltern who are not powerful enough to write an official history. In his book Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said points to how imperialist regimes use tradition as a determinant of national identity, by means of seeking to produce “pure (even purged) images” constructed “of a privileged, genealogically useful past, a past in which we exclude unwanted elements, vestiges, narratives”, Said,