غرفة تخصّ المرء وحدَه: مفهوم الكتابة في خطاب الشاعرات التحرّريّ

Abstract

This study explores the concept of writing as developed by contemporary Arab Women poets engaged in Liberatory discourse, further examining how this discourse is constructed through their poetic techniques. The study looks at the span of three decades, from the early 1970s to the early 21^st century – a period that is characterized by significant Liberatory literary transformations. Within this period, three distinct patterns of Liberatory discourse appear to reflect the poets’ understanding of writing within the poems themselves – i.e., through a meta-poetic lens, with each poem reflecting upon itself. By analyzing selected poems forming “rooms of writing,” akin to Virginia Woolf’s concept of a “room of one’s own,” the study offers critical readings of the following works: Taḥaddī [Challenge] by the Algerian writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Waqafāt [Pauses] by the Iraqi poet Wafaa Abd Al-Razzaq, and Ana Waḥdī al-Qiṭṭa Hunā [I, Alone, Am the Cat Here] by the Emirati poet Maisoon Saqr.