2. Dr Ameen Parray

Abstract 02: Dr. Ameen Parray

Expressions of Political Dissent: in the Poetry of Mahmud Darwesh

Mahmud Darwesh is considered as one of the most vocal and provocative poets of dissent, resistance and opposition of the twentieth and twenty-first century as most of the times, without ambiguity in fact, he speaks directly to the oppressive Israeli Colonizer in the voice of common Palestinian people who had to experience exile, displacement and dispossession due to Israeli colonialism and aggression. This particular aspect of Darwesh’s poetry provokes the reader to directly associate his poetry with the politics of the country and the times he lived in. In the proposed paper, the present researcher intends to highlight those areas in the poetry of Darwesh which in fact are the direct products of his opposition to and resistance against the oppressive military and political conditions of Palestine. The present research also intends to show how in the conflict zones of the world resistance literature is born as a narrative of the oppressed and the dispossessed as through Mahmud Darwesh’s poetry glimpses of the colonial history could be retrieved and continuation of the same oppressive Political occupations could be revisited.