Document Type : Research projects
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1 دانشجوی رشته عربی دانشگاه خلیج فارس
2 Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran.
Abstract
Mahmoud Darwish’s Al-Jadariyya stands as a landmark in Palestinian resistance literature, in which abstract themes such as identity, death, exile, and hope are expressed through image schemas within cognitive semantics. This study addresses how these schemas convert the poet’s personal experiences into collective symbols of resistance and shape the broader understanding of resistance literature. Given the importance of this topic for understanding how language reflects lived experience and conveys meaning, analyzing cognitive structures in Al-Jadariyya offers insights into literary and semantic interpretations of resistance poetry. Using a descriptive–analytical approach and drawing on the theory of Lakoff and Johnson, this study examines three types of image schemas: spatial, motion, and force. The findings show that spatial schemas represent ideas such as identity, loss, and exile through container metaphors; motion schemas depict the poet’s progression from suffering to hope and from mortality to eternity; and force schemas portray experiences of oppression and siege as barriers to liberation and resistance. These schemas, rooted in bodily experience, facilitate the construction of meaning across psychological and social dimensions. The deployment of image schemas allows for a multi-layered analysis of exile, death, and resistance, illustrating how poetic language can serve as a medium for conveying the complexity of cognition and experience. Al-Jadariyya not only embodies Palestinian identity but, through cognitive metaphorical structures, has emerged as a lasting and influential work in resistance literature.
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