Homeland and Exile in the Poetry of Aati Al-Barakat
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1606.32Keywords:
migration, Aati Al-Barakat, Iraqi poetry, modern literature, exileAbstract
Among the many Iraqi poets who left their homeland, Iraq, in the 1990s, a time of great political turmoil that saw the exodus of many creative people, Aati Al-Barakat was one of the poets who left Iraq and eventually made his emigration to his new home in North America. The poet lived in exile spatially, but emotionally and intellectually, he remained inhabiting the cocoon of alienation, just as it also inhabited him. He established a cultural isolation in his new home. His daily life is in one valley, and his intellectual and emotional spaces are in another valley. Indeed, his vital life is limited, if not non-existent. This study aims to shed light on the life of the poet Aati Al-Barakat, his works, his poetry, and a critical literary analysis of his writing style, and to clarify his suffering in exile.
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