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43 Technium Soc. Sci. J. 557 (2023)
Loss of Identity and Nostalgia as Two Post-Impacts of Exile in Arabic and Spanish Poetry: Darwish and Cernuda as a Case Study

handle is hein.journals/techssj43 and id is 557 raw text is: Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol. 43, 557-569, May, 2023 ISSN: 2668-7798 SOCIAL SCIENCES JOURNAL www.techniumscience.com Loss of Identity and Nostalgia as Two Post-Impacts of Exile in Arabic and Spanish Poetry: Darwish and Cernuda as a Case Study Mohammad Daher Ababneh Language Center, the Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan mohammad ab a~hu.edu.jo Abstract. This comparative study aims at highlighting loss of identity and nostalgia as two exile's post-impacts in Arabic and Spanish poetry. As exile is one of the recurrent themes in both cultures, the study has exclusively dedicated itself to investigate the loss of identity and nostalgia. In order to conduct the study, Darwish and Cernuda are selected to build the study on, as they have heavily referred to the above two post-impacts. The political situation which Palestine and Spain suffered from was the main motivation for the presence of exile in their poetry, respectively the external colonization in Darwish's case and the Civil War in Cernuda's. In order to practically conduct this comparative study, the author has selected a number of poems that share the same themes. Keywords. Darwish, Cernuda, Exile, Nostalgia, Loss of Identity 1. Introduction Exile is one of the themes that are very present in poetry; it is a universal experience that many humans undergo including poets, regardless of their backgrounds or cultures. Exile and displacement from the homeland can be very traumatic experience that deeply affect human emotions of identity and belonging. Writing about such experiences is a common activity, where humans express their feelings of nostalgia, longing, and estrangement. Poetics of exile has universally appeared as one of the main types of literature. Throughout history, the theme of exile has motivated many writers who have come across such an experience to compose their literature. Exile has been found as a consequence of many factors such as politics and nature of their society in which they live. Chakraborty and Das (2017, 30) maintain: The theme of exile has always been of great interest and enchantment to many writers in the course of literary history and piqued their imagination and triggered their fantastical interests. The reason behind the enduring appeal of exile and its consequent circumstances and ordeals is two-fold - either because their own experiences involved their desertion under compulsion of their native country for political reasons, or because, unhappy with their society and its ways, they consciously decided to live elsewhere. Exiled intellectuals live in a median state; though living in a new land, they remain attached to their homelands. They can't free themselves from their old memories and this 557

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