‘SUBALTERNITY’ and ‘RESISTANCE’ in Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead (1972) and The Island (1973)
| dc.contributor.author | Bennamane Linda | |
| dc.contributor.author | Boudjaoui Celena | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-17T12:28:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-17T12:28:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description | 58p. : 30cm (CD-Rom) | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present dissertation discusses the issue of ‘Subalternity’ and ‘Resistance’ in South Afrikaner playwright Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead (1972) and The Island (1973). Relying on the Italian Marxist and theorist Antonio Gramsci’s concepts of Subalternity and Resistance from his Prison Notebooks (1948). Our dissertation investigates the ways into which this committed white playwright depicts the Black South Africans not only as victims of the discriminatory system of the Apartheid, but also as resistant to it. The first chapter discusses Subalternity through identity and Passbook in the first play. It shows the dehumanizing implications of the oppressors against the Blacks. Then we have demonstrated the injustice applied on the prisoners and the brutality they have faced in the prison of the Island in the second play. The second chapter handles the issue of the main characters’ act of resistance through death in Sizwe Bansi is Dead, and in The Island the characters portray their resistance through brotherhood by showing their solidarity and through art by making reference to Antigone. One of the main findings of this piece of research concerns Fugard’s denunciation of the Apartheid segregationist system and his voicing of the Black South African’s agency for resistance. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Littérature et Approches Interdisciplinaires | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/24166 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mouloud Mammeri University | |
| dc.subject | Apartheid | |
| dc.subject | Subalternity | |
| dc.subject | Resistance | |
| dc.subject | Identity | |
| dc.subject | Passbook | |
| dc.subject | opposition | |
| dc.subject | Art | |
| dc.subject | Brotherhood | |
| dc.title | ‘SUBALTERNITY’ and ‘RESISTANCE’ in Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead (1972) and The Island (1973) | |
| dc.type | Thesis |