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الوطن
The Bridge Is Far Off
The writer criticizes Abdullah al-Ghadhami’s conception of virility as a fixed, implicit system governing language and texts, arguing that it cannot be falsified. This contrasts with his thesis of “Bedouin modernity,” which he regards as a historical residue that can be diagnosed and overcome once the conditions for full citizenship are in place. He compares al-Mutanabbi’s virility with Mahmoud Darwish’s individualism: Darwish resisted the image of the “poet of the cause” imposed on him by the masses, and the writer sees his championing of the modern individual as part of his greatness. The passage ends with the image of a saddle wearying poetry’s horses: poets, it suggests, still travel under the burden of old standards of virility, while the bridge to liberation remains far away.
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