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Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet and the Other as the Beloved

Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet and the Other as the Beloved

Cohen-Mor, Dalya

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Literary CriticismJudaism

ISBN10: 3030241645
ISBN13: 9783030241643
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Aug 16 2020
Pages: 105
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet and the Other as the Beloved focuses on Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), whose poetry has helped to shape Palestinian identity and foster Palestinian culture through many decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dalya Cohen-Mor explores the poet's romantic relationship with Rita, an Israeli Jewish woman whom he had met in Haifa in his early twenties and to whom he had dedicated a series of love poems and prose passages, among them the iconic poem Rita and the Gun. Interwoven with biographical details and diverse documentary materials, this exploration reveals a fascinating facet in the poet's personality, his self-definition, and his attitude toward the Israeli other. Comprising a close reading of Darwish's love poems, coupled with many examples of novels and short stories from both Arabic and Hebrew fiction that deal with Arab-Jewish love stories, this book delves into the complexity of Arab-Jewish relations and shows how romance can blossom across ethno-religious lines and how politics all too often destroys it.

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