Review Paper
Year: 2022 | Month: January-March | Volume: 6 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 44-52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/gijash.20220107
Fadwa Tuqan's Anti-War Poetry: A Cry against Zionism
Raghad Shakir Deair
Department of English, University of Misan, /Misan, Iraq
ABSTRACT
Modern Palestinian resistance poetry has, since the late 19th century, been an expression of the national culture of the Palestinian people and their historic self-determination and homeland battle. This study explores Palestinian poetry of Resistance written for the ten years after the June 1967 War that triple the territory of the State of Israel. The popular Palestinian poet, Fadwa Tuqan, has been translated into English, with commentaries on Palestinian history before 1967 and on the occupation of Palestine after 1977. Her poetry is a mirror to the historical struggle against Zionism.
Through this study of the historical context of Palestinian resistance Fadwa Tuqan's poetry, readers can gain a deeper understanding of the ties between Palestinian national culture and their struggle for homeland.
Keywords: resistance poetry, diaspora, Fadwa Tuqan, exile, attachment to the land, loss and hope.
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