Postmodernism in the Literary Text of the Ode” Collage

زبان و ادبیات عربی

Article 1, Volume 4, Issue 7, February 2013   

Document Type: research article

DOI: 10.22067/jall.v4i7.19797

Author

Hossein Abavisani^*

Abstract

Postmodernism is of the third period of human’s thought eras. During this era which spans the end of the nineteenth century to the present time , “creation “of the real replaces its “ discovery”. This stream is the extremist form of modernism. It has some specific qualities such as irony and mixture of popular art and formal art. This essay aims to analyze one of Arabic modern texts named “Collage” by Samih al-Qasim the Palestinian poet, and to display the characteristics of postmodernism in its form and content. This text ,however, like any other postmodern text cannot be easily understood and the characters of time and place and other elements described in it are not prone to an exact understanding . “College” is an ambiguous text, since it utilizes several literary genres and blends heterogeneous texts and far distant places and times . Furthermore the formal features of postmodernism make the ode “Collage” more difficult to grasping and apprehension. Instead, it is qualified for multiple readings.

Keywords

Postmodernism; Collage; Arabic literary modern texts