![]() The paper further proposes new insights into man’s connection to land and is a step towards opening up the field of ecocriticism in the Arab literary academies. Through the ecopostcolonial perspective of the study, the employment of nature for resistance and the indication of Darwish as an ecopostcolonial poet of the Arab world are played out. ![]() The analysis reveals that Darwish uses the various forms of nature that range from the forms of the pure nature to the forms that have been cultivated. ![]() It is termed as ecoresistance as a new perspective of analyzing resistance in the Arab literary studies, a non-western viewpoint and an original analytical lens for reading Darwish’s work. The theoretical framework used in this study is derived from both the ecocritical and postcolonial theories of reading literature. His poems, throughout his writing life that spans fifty years, could be used to demonstrate how an ecopostcolonial perspective might contribute to an understanding of the poet’s resistance through nature to the colonizers in his homeland. This paper explores how Darwish employs nature as a new way for resisting the occupation of his homeland. ![]() Resisting colonialism remains the main theme of the poetry of the Arab Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. ![]()
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