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Universitas Gadjah Mada

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DECONSTRUCTING ‘POVERTY’ IN ALWĀN MIN AL-FAQR BY ISLĀM ṢĀDIQ: JACQUES DERRIDA’S PERSPECTIVE Muhamad Husain Rifa'i; Ummi Hasanah; Alif Zakaria; Maulana Nurul Izza; Muhammad Fahmi
CMES (Center of Middle Eastern Studies) Vol 19, No 1 (2026)
Publisher : Arabic Literature Department

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20961/cmes.19.1.109970

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This study analyzes the construction and deconstruction of the meaning of poverty in the short story collection Alwān min al-Faqr by Islām Ṣādiq through hierarchical binary oppositions and how these structures can be destabilized through Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction. This research employs a qualitative descriptive approach using close reading and textual note-taking techniques. The main textual source of this study is the short story collection Alwān min al-Faqr, which serves as the corpus of analysis, while secondary sources include scholarly works on deconstruction theory and studies on the representation of poverty in literary discourse. The findings reveal four patterns of binary opposition: physical versus economic poverty, social versus economic poverty, poverty without shelter versus poverty with shelter, and health versus economic poverty. A deconstructive reading shows that these hierarchies are unstable because the text contains internal contradictions that undermine the assumed superiority of one meaning over another. Consequently, poverty in the text emerges as a relational discursive construct open to multiple interpretations and contributes to expanding the application of deconstruction in contemporary Arabic literary studies.
Co-Authors Alif Zakaria Muhamad Husain Rifa'i Muhammad Fahmi Ummi Hasanah