Multicultural Identity: A Critical Reading of Zaid Shlah’s Poetry
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The fundamental pivot of multicultural discourse is the poetics of identity. It entails the issue of otherness, which illustrates the prospect of cross-cultural intellectual exchange of different cultures. In order to change the image of Arabs, contemporary Arab-American poetry heavily draws on the poetics of exile, culture, identity, race, and gender misperception. The research examines the issue of identity which is skillfully represented in Zaid Shlah’s poetic collections, Taqsim and Clockwork , via the prisms of intellectual plurality, cultural diversity, and the effects these have on individual and societal identities.
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