The Concept of Dream as a Technique of Resistant Consciousness and Emancipation in the Poetry of Langston Hughes and Mahmoud Darwish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21808084 |
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| Authors | Nawal Alshawabkeh (University of Jordan), Hamzeh Almahasneh (0000-0002-7020-627X, University of Jordan) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-133 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory and Practice in Language Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1799-2591 • E-ISSN: 2053-0692 |
| Publisher | Academy Publication (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17507/tpls.1501.14 |
| OpenAlex | W4406178176 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper aims to examine the concept of dream in the poetry of Langston Hughes and Mahmoud Darwish as a technique of resistant consciousness and emancipation. The intransigent, non-reconciliatory stance of both Darwish and Hughes against oppression profoundly preserves their dream of emancipation, making it alive even as an idea. The dream empowers the two poets’ resilience, oppositional, and resistant consciousness against all forms of oppressive power. This article analyzes how both Darwish and Hughes can be viewed as non-reconciled poets in the name of humanist intransigence and refusal to surrender. The concept of dream is the ultimate way for the two poets, providing them with radical and oppositional resistance. Hence, the presence of the concept of dream and its prevalence in the two poets’ thinking and poetic works encourage them to be always in a state of dynamic generative mobility of resistance, intransigence, and non-reconciliation
Art · Consciousness · Dream · Emancipation · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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