Commitment and Exile in some Algerian and Irish Selected Poems
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Date
2019
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Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
Our comparative study focuses o examining Irish and Algerian poetry, both emerging
from histories of colonialism, political conflict and lost homelands under the respective works
of William BulerYeat's "Easter 1916" and Muhand U Yehya's "Nunember" in terms of
political commitment, then moving to AssiaDjebar's "L'exilé" and Eavan Boland's "The
Lost Land"in terms of exile. The main issue centers on the way poets from these diffrent
nations channel their political struggles and yearning for homelands into their work. To
achieve this goal we applied Julia Krestiva's theory Intertextuality, and Jean Paul Sartre'
concept Politics and the engaged Intellectuals.
Our study is divided into two chapters. In the first chapter we have discussed
commitment in both works of William Butler Yeat's and Muhand U Yehya, in the second
chapter we have dealt with exile and the effects it left on people who have experienced it
through the works of AssiaDjebar and Eavan Boland. The present comparative study depict
the universal struggle of the oppressed people demonstrating how political commitment and
exile are present in the works of Irish and Algerianpoets.
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54p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom)
Keywords
Commitment, Exile, Political Commitment, Poems
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Literature and interdisciplinary Approaches