Chadian poetry: tradition and intentions of renewa

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Associate Professor, King Faisal University, Chad

2 University of faysal

Abstract

Chadian Arabic literature went through different literary stages that formed its literary fabric and established its history across different eras. This literature witnessed different periods, honorably beginning with the poet Ibrahim El-Kanimi, due to the artistic value of the poetic text that characterized his poems in that period. His texts have been mature compared to those of the subsequent periods. This stage was then followed by stages in which Chadian Arabic poetry witnessed stagnation in its structure, form and content. However, thanks to cultural and scientific openness and extending the bridge of communication between the Chadian environment and the Arab countries, poetry developed significantly, and the Chadian Arabic poem mimicked its counterpart in the mother Arab world. It was impacted by the modernity and development of the new literary life in form and content, so it kept pace with reality and took on modern forms appropriate to the environment in which it was born. Perhaps the most prominent feature representing this aspect is the generation that lived during the period of the modern literary renaissance in Egypt, and the generation of the scientific movement created by the cultural arena. They provided the Chadian Arabic poem with all kinds of modernity, symbolism, emulation, and imitation. The degree of the artistic characteristic of the poem rose in adaptation to the prevailing literary movement, so it became a natural tradition followed by many Arabic-speaking African literary arenas.

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