The impact of the sacred place in the formation of the spatial identity in the poetry of Saudi women
Keywords:
Identity, the holy place, the Saudi female poet, the relationship between identity and placeAbstract
The research studies the contribution of the poets' Saudi woman in shaping the Saudi identity with her relationship with the holy place through her voice, which artistically expresses her authentic belonging to the land of the two holy mosques. That marked her identity with a special spatial and spiritual character, which transcended subjectivity to the general, through the stability of the place and its interaction with the identity.
The poets' Saudi woman has contributed to the formation of this relationship with its aesthetic and cognitive dimension, and its consolidation in its connection with the spatial constant. Therefore, the beauty and majesty of the place were reflected in that identity.
The importance of the topic is evident in the study of women's poetry, highlighting their active role in re-inventing the relationship between place and identity and shaping it at every stage of development taking place in the Kingdom. Its purpose is to read the identity discourse as one of the most important mechanisms for proving individual and collective existence; and its consolidation in consciousness through its assertion in poetry as the effective discourse in shaping individuals' perceptions of themselves.
Our study addresses the poetry of Saudi female poets' who drew clear features of the relationship of identity with the place in different times; styles of expression and the structure of thinking to show how they made the holy place an icon of identity and strengthened it on the one hand and contributed to the development of aesthetic awareness of it on the other hand.
