Language Choice in Moroccan Poetry
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2019
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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The multilingual landscape of Morocco, along with its long history of language contact
and conflict, informs language choice in every context. Moroccan poets write in many
different languages that are used in the region, and their decisions about the ways in which
they express themselves are affected by this history. This thesis provides a general
overview of Moroccan multilingualism, then examines several individual poets to shed
light on the effects of language choice in Moroccan poetry. It examines poets' language
choice and its impacts, as well as the effects of translation and code-switching in poetry.
The poetry thus reveals major themes of political activism (in both content and language
choice), coexistence or separation of languages in literary spaces, and patterns of inclusion
and alienation. These two sides of the study are mutually beneficial: understanding the
themes permits a better understanding of the poetry, and a comprehension of the poetry
allows for a better comprehension of larger social patterns.