صورة العامل والفلاح في شعر راشد حسين: قراءة في الأبعاد الاجتماعيّة والنّضاليّة

Abstract

This article examines representations of the worker and the peasant in Rashid Hussein’s poetry collection. Hussein’s poetry offers varied depictions of “the worker” as both a victim of injustice and oppression and an agent of rebellion and revolution. Through these depictions, the poet conveys his understanding of workers’ suffering and his solidarity with them, presenting himself as a brother in hardship. Alongside this, Hussein’s poetry depicts the deprivation experienced by “the peasant” following the dispossession of Palestinian land and rights, with particular focus on the revolutionary consciousness that accompanies this state of injustice. Here, Hussein highlights the simplicity of the Palestinian peasant’s mode of life, which runs parallel to endurance and resistance against oppressive forces. Portraying the suffering of Palestinian workers and peasants is inseparable from the concerns of workers and peasants worldwide, indicating proximity to communist philosophy, as well as the concerns of indigenous people living under settler-colonialism.