Steve Jacobs’ The Enemy Within : A Racial and Psychoanalytic Reading
| dc.contributor.author | BENZIANE, Sarah | |
| dc.contributor.author | BOUAKLI, Kahina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-30T13:19:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-30T13:19:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-06 | |
| dc.description | 54p. ; 30cm. +(cd) | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This research paper is an exploration of a social and psychological study of Steve Jacobs’ novel entitled The Enemy Within (1995).For its theoretical implication, the study relied on Hall’s theory on identity, Todorov’s theory on racism and Jung’s theory on the unconscious. Focus has been laid on the analysis of psychological state of the characters, their confused lives and their behaviors. Yet, we stressed on the analysis of the characters’ positions that were undertaken to treat the issues of identity and racism. Our dissertation contains five sections which consists of a ‘General Introduction’, ‘Methods and Materials’, ‘Results’, ‘Discussion’, and a ‘General Conclusion’ and a ‘Bibliography’. The discussion section is divided into three chapters. The first chapter concerns the way in which Jacobs defined the character’s identity within South African society. The second deals with the issue of racism that was widespread during the Apartheid era. The third one is a psychoanalytic study of Jacobs’ characters. This study has reached some of the following results. The first one is that each character tries to recognize his own identity. Second, racial segregation disturbed the whole nation during Apartheid system. The last one is that the characters are subject to inner weaknesses that might destroy them. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Arts dramatiques et lettres Anglaises | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/19298 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou | en |
| dc.title | Steve Jacobs’ The Enemy Within : A Racial and Psychoanalytic Reading | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |