KONTRAPUNKTUALNA KONSTRUKCIJA DRUGOSTI U POEZIJI MAHMUDA DERVIŠA
CONTRAPUNTAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE OTHER IN MAHMOUD DARWISH’S POETRY

Summary/Abstract: A very significant poetic determinant of resistance poetry is reflected in the contrapuntal understanding of the Other. According to this view, the position of the Other is assigned to the colonial subject by inverting the matrix of symbolic simulacra and by rearranging the predetermined positions of Centre and periphery. Although Darwish clearly highlights rival alter ego as an ethical and epistemic difference, he does not perceive the otherness as static phenomenon, which is the nature of Orientalist canon. On the contrary, in the Palestinian poetry of resistance the Other develops from the position of enemy to that of Wittgenstein’s fugitive part of personal spirituality. In this way, resistance poetry opposes the concept of alterity defined by the canon, since the Other represents a complex and polyvalent entity, rather than a stereotyped one. Consequently, such verse represents an opportunity to rediscover the man in his totality which indicates the intensity of universal humanism in Palestinian poetry.

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