A Fanonian Study of Lady Augusta Gregory’s The Rising of the Moon (1907)
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Date
2020
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UNIVERSITE MOULOUD MAMMERI TIZI-OUZOU
Abstract
The following research work aims at studying and analysing Lady Gregory’s The Rising of The
Moon (1907) in the light of Postcolonial theory put forward in Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of
The Earth(1968), by focusing on the evolution of the native intellectaul and (ex) colonized authors
through the three phases of “Assimilation”, “Return to the Source” to reach what Fanon qualifies
“The Combating Phase”.Following the IMRAD method, our dissertion is devided into two
chapters. While the first chapter is devoted to analyse the most important historical circumstances
and key literary events that shaped Ireland’s literary history that deeply influenced the majority of
Irish writers, poets and dramatists who produced a distinctive literature far from the shaddows of
the colonizer, the second chapter examined particularly Lady Gregoey’s The Rising of The Moon
through Fanon’s documentation on the evolution of the native intellectual. It has been revealed that
in the play, Lady Gregory revived the Irish Celtic past through going back to Irish myths, folktales
and nostalgic past in order to describe the current concerns and ordinary lives of the Irish peasants.
In addition to this, it has been made clear that she attempted to reinterpret/rehabilitate some of
the Irish revolutionary songs to show the richness of the Irish culture. Therefore, it can be said that
Lady Gregory’s The Rising of the Moon is not only a comic play, but also a serious play that
embodies serious themes such as Irish nationalism , heroic past and revolutionary ideas
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30cm.; 65p.+cd
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Fanon, Lady Gregory, nationalism, native intellectual, revival
Citation
Littérature et civilisation