LiNGUA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra
Vol 13, No 2 (2018): LiNGUA

THEMES AND WRITING TECHNIQUES OF ‘JOURNAL OF AN ORDINARY GRIEF’ BY MAHMOUD DARWISH

Roshanfekr, Akram (Unknown)
Mousavi, Fahime (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2018

Abstract

Today, writing biography in literature is accompanied by some advancement, namely autobiography. Mostly autobiographies  imply the purpose of the writer containing several writing types including historiography, counting the days, memory writing, reportage, story writing, or travel writing. They also use techniques such as dialogue and description in order to involve the reader in the course of his life events happened. This study employs a descriptive-analytic method to ‘Journal of an Ordinary Grief’ by Mahmoud Darwish for examining its autobiographical themes and techniques. The most important result of the current study is that seven different writing techniques were applied in ‘Journal of an Ordinary Grief’. Darwish used report writing and interview method in narrating interrogations, and in this way, he presented more information about the contact style of hostile forces and their oral literature for his work's reader access. It considers the development of content in describing his life events by which he has produced a social-political autobiography.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

humbud

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

LiNGUA Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra (ISSN Print: 1693-4725 and E-ISSN: 2442-3823) is a journal of Linguistics and Literature which is published twice a year in June and December by Laboratory of Information and Publication, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim ...