The poetry of Mahmoud Al-Braikan, a study in the light of cultural criticism

Abstract

This research presents a new vision for Al-Buraikan's poetic ‎texts based on what cultural criticism provides in terms of possibilities ‎and tools that reveal to us what is unspoken in the text by demolishing ‎the implicit systems and reaching its textual structure. Modern poetry is ‎a cultural carrier of many systemic implications related to the poet's ‎view of society and his era, which is characterized by having a political ‎character for the ruling class. In addition, his text came loaded with ‎nihilistic and philosophical tendencies, which gave his text the ‎advantage of multiple readings and cultural interpretation. This gives us ‎the ability to understand the cognitive dimensions of Iraqi society, ‎focusing on the implicit system and standing on the hidden system that ‎drives it. There is no doubt that the phenomenon of cultural criticism is ‎a modern literary phenomenon in the field of criticism and literature. ‎Many Arab critics have been interested in this term, most notably ‎Abdullah Al-Ghadami in his book (Cultural Criticism: A Reading of Arab ‎Cultural Systems), who is considered the first to write in cultural ‎criticism and has great credit for introducing the term (cultural ‎criticism) to the homeland. Arabic and its translation, and Al-Ghadami ‎admitted that the intention is not to cancel the literary critical ‎achievement, but rather the goal is to transform the critical tool in ‎reading the pure aesthetic and justifying and marketing it, regardless of ‎its systemic flaws, into a tool in criticizing the discourse and revealing ‎its systems.‎