Document Type : Research paper
Authors
1 PhD student in Arabic language and literature
2 Professor of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Razi University
Abstract
The genetic structuralism critique is chiefly concerned with the meaningful relationship between the literature structure and the societal structure where the literary work is produced. As a famous theorist of this critical approach, Lucien Goldmann attributes a special place to the category of class consciousness and thus considers the collective consciousness of the social class as an inspiring source of literary work, while using it to describe the worldview of this class in his works. The contemporary Arabic poetry is sociologically valuable due to the effects of the political, social, economic and cultural events unfolding in Arab nations. This poetry describes the feelings, worldviews and collective consciousness of social participants in Arab nations. Syrian nationalist poet, Soleiman al-Eisa, has specifically attended to class consciousness in his resistance poems and greatly contributed to the national awakening of the Arab world, via his resistance themes. The present study used the descriptive-analytical method and Lucien Goldmann’s genetic structuralism to investigate the way class consciousness is reflected in al-Eisa’s poetry and describe the role of social class’s worldviews in his poetry composition. Findings revealed that al-Eisa emphasizes in his resistance poems the culture of sacrifice, martyrdom, Jihad and fighting to reinforce Arabic national and anti-imperialist sentiments and increase the class consciousness of social players. He also plays a constructive role in changing the people’s real knowledge into possible knowledge and deviating their view of their failing past towards an illuminating future full of positive changes.
Keywords
- genetic structuralist criticism
- class consciousness
- Lucien Goldmann
- Soleiman al-Eisa
- Resistance poetry
Main Subjects
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