Identity and Production of Discourse Between Individual Literature and Popular Imagination,Character of (Antara bin Shaddad) As a Model

Abstract

This study attempts to reveal the relationship between identity and discourse production with particular reference to individual literature and folk imagination, through the character of (Antara bin Shaddad). Antara’s discourse represents individual discourse that emerged from a self-issue concerning affiliation, aiming to marry his cousin. It was an instant discourse, expressing the communication facts that the character went through. It resulted in discourses reflecting identity transformations from slavery to tribal recognition constructing the hero of the tribe who saved it. However, the folk biography has formed a discourse of the other with various functions. Antara was granted the identity of the hero from birth until his death, due to his national role in uniting the Arabs and eliminating their enemies from Persians and Turks, before the emergence of the Prophet Muhammad (pbu) and his divine message. Therefore, this study applies social discourse analysis, attempting to determine the concept of identity and its forms in both poetic discourse and discourse of folk biography, and its relationship to discourse production.