La poesia saharaui en el nacimiento de la conciencia nacional

Picón, Juan Ignacio Robles; Martín, Juan Carlos Gimeno; Awah, Bahia Mahmud; Laman, Mohamed Ali

doi:10.4000/emam.789

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“…But with the global shift in power from Asia to Europe (Plys, 2013), Islamicate poetry became associated instead with political resistance against the state. Resistance poetry played a role in national independence movements, for example in Bangladesh (Ahmed 2014), Algeria (Chaker, 1989;Hornedo, 2012), Tunisia (Khayati, 1989), the Sahara (Pico´n et al, 2015), Iraq (Jones, 2014), Somalia (Hassan et al, 1995), Zanzibar (Mulokozi, 1975), and Mozambique (Searle, 1982); in anti-colonial resistance movements, especially in Palestine (Alshaer, 2009;Ashrawi, 1978;Canova, 1971;Elmessiri, 1981;Maira and Shihade, 2012;Sulaiman, 1984) and Kashmir (Ali, 2012;Kak, 2013;Kaul, 2017); and in postcolonial movements to restore democracy, for example in Nigeria (Oku`noye`, 2011) and Uzbekistan (Kendizior, 2007). In the context of these anti-state movements, poetry was employed to build solidarity within anti-authoritarian resistance movements by making it known that a sentiment of opposition against the state was widespread and growing.…”

Section: Islamicate Resistance Poetry Across the Globementioning

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The Poetry of Resistance: Poetry as Solidarity in Postcolonial Anti-Authoritarian Movements in Islamicate South Asia

Plys

2020

Theory, Culture & Society

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During India’s Emergency, anti-state poetry of a decidedly amateurish quality proliferated. Anti-Emergency poetry did little to bring about the restoration of democracy, nor could it have reasonably been mistaken for great art. So what was the purpose of writing resistance poetry if it was not meant to directly influence politics nor to be great art? Poetry as politics has a long history in the Islamicate world, dating back to the pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula. While until the 19th century Islamicate poetry was tied to the Caliphates who employed poets to extol the virtues of the ruling classes, after the so-called ‘Rise of the West’ Islamicate poetry became associated instead with anti-colonial and anti-state movements across the Islamicate world from Morocco to Indonesia and from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. In this essay, I argue that the utility of resistance poetry in anti-state movements in South Asia has been to build solidarity among social movement participants. The sociology of social movements has long placed emphasis on the role of affective bonds and solidarity building for predicting social movement success, and poetry, in the Islamicate context especially, I argue, does exactly that. By circulating poems, social movement participants inform the reader that resistance and opposition exist, they inspire participants and would-be participants and calm fears that participants might have, especially in moments of political repression. These poems generate emotional and cultural bonds among social movement participants by linking anti-state movements to the centuries-old tradition of Islamicate poetry, thereby fostering solidarity and providing a firm basis for collective action.

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Section: Islamicate Resistance Poetry Across the Globementioning

confidence: 99%

The Poetry of Resistance: Poetry as Solidarity in Postcolonial Anti-Authoritarian Movements in Islamicate South Asia

Plys

2020

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Transterritorialidad e identidad en la literatura norteafricana de expresión en castellano

Faye

2019

REA

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Resumen Este ensayo se propone estudiar la representación de la identidad en la literatura norteafricana de expresión en español o literatura "Magrebí" de expresión en español. Asimismo, se centrará en la producción cultural así como en la historiografía literaria de los creadores culturales norteafricanos o magrebíes que escriben en español. A tal efecto, el trabajo se apoyará, en parte, en la producción cultural de autores y autoras

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The Strategy of Style: Music, Struggle, and the Aesthetics of Sahrawi Nationalism in Exile

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Moreno²

2015

TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World

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La poesia saharaui en el nacimiento de la conciencia nacional

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The Poetry of Resistance: Poetry as Solidarity in Postcolonial Anti-Authoritarian Movements in Islamicate South Asia

The Poetry of Resistance: Poetry as Solidarity in Postcolonial Anti-Authoritarian Movements in Islamicate South Asia

Transterritorialidad e identidad en la literatura norteafricana de expresión en castellano

The Strategy of Style: Music, Struggle, and the Aesthetics of Sahrawi Nationalism in Exile

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