Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Maru Pabón is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University. At present she is working on a dissertation that traces the emergence of Third-Worldist poetic and aesthetic currents by examining literary and theoretical writings from Palestine, Algeria, and Cuba during the fifties and sixties. In particular, she is interested in the ways that three ‘national poets’––Mahmoud Darwish, Fayad Jamís, and Jean Sénac––placed their lyrics in a metonymic relation to the voice of the people, and inaugurated a discourse of cultural decolonization that claimed poetry as a site of emergent subjectivity, an arena of ideological struggle, and a fundamental weapon for the reformation of social relations. She is also a literary translator from the Spanish, Arabic, and French.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arabic
Colonialism
Palestinian Studies
Maghreb Studies
Translation
Theory
Transnationalism
Arab Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Palestine
Algeria
Specialties
Latin American-Middle Eastern Connections
Global South Studies
Arab Marxism
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (native)
French (fluent)
Persian (elementary)
Education
MPhil
| 2020
| Comparative Literature
| Yale University
MA
| 2020
| Comparative Literature
| Yale University
Abstracts
In Search of the Voice of the People: Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetic Realism and its Third-Worldist Genres
