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The Subaltern in Some Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish



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Tawfiq Yousef, Aseel Abu Al-Rub

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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2016.05.002

Middle East University, Amman, Jordan University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

The concept “Subaltern” or the “Other” has been a subject of discussion and debate in many fields such as Marxism, cultural studies, Orientalism, post-colonialism, history, sociology and politics. Consequently, many eminent critics and theorists have approached it from different perspectives. This study, depending on the post-colonial theories of many critics such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and others, explores the type of voice given to the subaltern in some selected poems by Mahmoud Darwish. For Darwish, the subaltern can and should speak.

subaltern, postcolonial, Darwish, identity