Document Type : Original Article
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Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran
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PhD in Arabic Language and Literature, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Cultural semiotics is a branch of semiotics that studies systems of signs and symbols in their cultural and social context. This branch focuses on how meaning is produced and circulated in cultures and how signs (linguistic, visual, behavioral, material) are used to represent values, beliefs, and collective identities. Yahya Samawi’s works, especially the epic “Al-Taqtak”, are considered an extension of the poetic modernism movement in this country and other Arab countries due to the literary and artistic phenomena contained in it, in addition to Samawi’s deep connection with the history and cultural and religious heritage of Iraq. This connection with heritage has prompted the poet to use various symbols and signs in his poetic works and to give them concepts and references through which he expresses his suffering in exile, exile, and his attachment to the land, in addition to his stance on the symbols of some politicians and rulers at the level of the homeland and the nation. The aim of this research is to extract and explain some cultural signs present in this epic. Now the main question is how cultural semiotics can help the audience understand the hidden angles of this epic and what function it can have. The analytical-descriptive method has been used to answer this question. The findings of this research indicate that "Malhama al-Taktak" is a historical document that tells the narrative of the marginalized people instead of the official narrative and elevates a simple device, namely (Taktak), to the level of a myth and is an indirect tool of criticism and attacks corruption, occupation, and religious violence through symbols And to eliminate corruption and tyranny, it calls on the people to unite for the revolution to bring Iraq to prosperity, prosperity, wealth, and freedom.
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