Institutional Repository UIN Sunan Kalijaga YogyakartaDeconstructing the Masculinity of the Rib Discourse in Nizār Qabbānī’s Poem “Taktubīn al- Syi’r.. wa Uwaqqi’ Anā..”-Yulia Nasrul Latifiauthor-Izharulhak Saiful HafniauthorNizār Qabbānī’s poem “Taktubīn al-Syi’r.. wa Uwaqqi’ Anā..” offers reflections that invite a rethinking of the patriarchal cultural construction embedded in binary opposition, and specifically of the discourse of the masculine rib, which many understand as given in the way religious doctrine is generally understood. The poem presents its thought in a deconstructive style, toward the reconstruction of a more humanist cultural formation capable of restoring women’s autonomy as human beings. Two principal findings emerge. First, the oppressive discourse of the rib within binary opposition is a falsehood concealing a patriarchal ideology that oppresses women to enforce male domination. That ideology has shaped a reality in which women have been left behind and have experienced radical human degradation across millennia. Second, the radical deconstruction the poem performs operates through the reversal of the binary opposition of the rib myth as a strategy for strengthening women’s humanity. The discovery of ancient matriarchal traces functions as a trace producing différance, thereby deferring and destabilising fixed meaning. The instability of meaning within the opposition between masculine subjectivity and feminine objectivity renders the rib myth a constructed rather than a given truth. That unstable opposition is ultimately dismantled to establish a new egalitarian relation and to eliminate the centre within binary structures. The wider significance of the reading lies in its final refusal. It would have been simpler for the poem to answer millennia of subordination with an assertion of feminine supremacy, and the historical material it invokes would have supported such an assertion. That it declines to do so, insisting instead that women exist as themselves and that no pole should occupy the centre, is what distinguishes deconstruction from inversion. The ethical aim is not to win the opposition but to dissolve it.800 Literature/KesusastraanKesusastraan Arab2026Center of Conservation Sustainable Heritage (CaSEH),Book Section

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