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Dissent and Revolt in Levantine Arab Poetry: Birds, Bodies, and Homeland
Abstract
The various nations and ethnic peoples of the Levant have suffered invasion, colonization, and occupation numerous times over the course of the last century, and there have been rigorous forms of resistance through poetry. Most notably, the symbols of birds, bodies, and homeland have figured prominently in the verses of the natives of this region and their descendants in their respective diasporas. Concerning the region's inhabitants or members of the diaspora, their physical bodies possess inextricable ties to the homeland, despite disparate distances either through forced expulsion or reluctant emigration. There will be focus on how the biological body, the mind within, and the environment that surrounds, including all the cultural, ethnic, and geographical factors becomes a body anthropology that shapes Levantine poets and their work. Levantine poetry showcases a symbiotic relationship, that what happens to one's homeland also happens to the bodies of its natives; likewise, what happens to the natives' bodies happens to the homeland.
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