Colonialism and Revolution in Louis Ferdinand Céline D’un Château L’Autre (1957) and James Gordon Farrell Troubles (1970)
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Date
2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
This research is a comparative study that explores the theme of revolution and the notions of violence and resistance in James Gordon Farrell’s Troubles and Louis Ferdinand Céline’s D’un Château L’Autre. The purpose of our study has been to prove that both authors have close vision of revolution. Although, the two authors belong to different geographical areas and have different cultures and languages, their preoccupations in their works are similar. In our analyses we resorted in one hand to Hannah Arendt’s theory on revolution expended in her book “On Revolution” (1963). On the other hand, we resorted to Michel Foucault’s concepts on resistance as developed in his work “History of Sexuality”, and to some of Frantz Fanon’s concepts on violence in his book “The Wretched of the Earth” (1961). This research is divided into two chapters, the first chapter we will explore the theme of revolution, we focus on the authors’ interpretation of revolution. The second chapter will demonstrate the way violence and resistance are depicted through the two novels.Highlighting the way both writers portray violence in their countries and how resistance is shaped by the Irish and French people as a form of opposition to oppression and authority, the research results in bringing out some recurrent affinities between the two novels in their interpretation of the themes of revolution and colonialism.
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53p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom)
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Revolution, Colonialism, Violence, Resistance, Oppression, Authority.
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Littérature Générale et Comparée