Document Type : Original Article
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PhD Candidate of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Language and Literature , University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
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Assistant professor of Kurdish literature, Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
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Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
Abstract
The concept of homeland is multifaceted and encompasses several epistemological fields, such as geography, anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis, political science, and literary theory, particularly post-colonial studies. Moreover, the construction of the identity of many nation-states today, especially in the Middle East, is a socio-historical creation that results from the concept of othering based on the homeland. Othering occurs at both macro and micro levels. At the macro level, it involves canonizing the West/White as the subject and the East as object. At the micro level, it involves confronting the ruling power of nations or neighbouring ethnicities/races. This position in the macro narrative is reflected in many contemporary Persian and Kurdish poems, formulated under leftist/committed or resistance literature. Mehdi Akhavan-Sales and Abdullah Pashew are two poets who represent the narrative of the homeland from different perspectives. In this article, we analyze their poetry to demonstrate how they construct the homeland as a form of resistance and commitment against other types at the macro and micro levels. Our analysis shows that the artistic-ideological construction of homeland in the poetry of these two poets is represented from three perspectives: psychological-nostalgic, objective/geographical, and discursive. To illustrate this, we provide specific examples from their poems that demonstrate each perspective.
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