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Journal Article
The Trauma of Partition in Michael Longley's Poetry of the Irish Troubles and Murīd Al-Barghūthī's Palestinian
2023
Overview
Violence, migration, and displacement shape postcolonial societies; they help in dividing colonised countries into geographical partitions. The political and communal aspects of the partition have individual and collective influences, particularly when it comes to the splitting of both Ireland and Palestine. The colonial partitions in Ireland in the wake of World War I and Palestine at the end of World War II offer an extensive study of the social and cultural heritage of state divisions, where the trauma of partition constitutes political events until today. This paper concentrates on the political and cultural legacies of partition in Ireland and Palestine in the poetry of both the Irish and Palestinian poets, Michael Longley and Murīd al-Barghūthī. Both poets specify the issue of the partition to their countries, yet their poetry works on a wider level that spreads to all nations. Partition becomes a universal crisis, not just for Irish people or Palestinians. Their poetry also involves national voices and entails cultural struggles. While al-Barghūthī refuses the partition of Palestine and sees it as a kind of colonisation, Longley sees that the conflict in Ireland is not explained as a story of partition, but rather a problem of sectarianism and communal border. He tries to find ways of reconciliation and acceptance of this problematic issue. Partition reflects a problematic solution to a complex problem that had existed for a long time between the Anglo-Irish minority and Catholic majority in Ireland, and Muslim Palestinians and Jewish Israelis in the occupied Palestine. This paper will illustrate how the nature of the colonial and postcolonial states form the construction of those minorities and majorities and the relationship between culture and the state. This paper also examines the impact of partition on poetry and analyses poetic representations of and responses to the Irish troubles in Longley's poetry and the creation of Israel in the Middle East in al-Barghūthī's exilic poetry.
Publisher
جامعة القاهرة - كلية الآداب
