Political Commitment Against Oppression and Cultural Hegemony in William Butler Yeats’s and Muhand U Yahya’s selected works
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2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou
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The aim of this work has been undertake a comparative study between William Butler Yeats’s and Mohand Ou Yahya’s respective works focusing solely on affinities. The selection includes, “Cathleen Ni Houlihan”, “Nunmber” and “Easter 1916” with “Barwagiya”. The purpose of our study has been to prove that both authors have close conceptions toward cultural revival and their protest against the oppressive regime in their indigenous communities. Furthermore, this analysis will shed light upon a short summary of the selected works and the biographies of the authors. To achieve this goal, this work will be based on Sartre’s theory of Commitment developed in his book What is Literature? (1948) and Greenblatt theory of New Historicism to show how does the work of both authors have contributed to the raise of national awareness and to gain cultural revival within their communities.
We have divided our work into three chapters. In the first chapter we have dealt with the most important historical events which marked and retrace authors’ literary works. In the second chapter we will expose the contribution of both William Butler Yeats and Muhand U Yahya to achieve the cultural revival. The third chapter is a thematic analysis in which we attempt to highlight the aspect of commitment against social injustice and cultural imperialism in both Yeats’s and Mohya’s selected works. Even though, the latter belong to different geographical areas and have different cultures and languages, their preoccupations in their early works are similar.
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80p. ; 30cm.+(cd)
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Literature et approaches interdiciplinaires