Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale

Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Journal issue | 59 | 2023
Research Article | Against Collectivity and Dictatorship: The Revolution of the Individual in Salīm Barakāt’s Kuhūf Hāydrāhūdāhūs

Against Collectivity and Dictatorship: The Revolution of the Individual in Salīm Barakāt’s Kuhūf Hāydrāhūdāhūs

Abstract

This study aims to analyse Salīm Barakāt’s novel Kuhūf Hāydrāhūdāhūs (2004) by focusing on the problematic dynamics between individuality, communitarianism, and dictatorship. After exploring the novel’s social binary structure, it examines the character of the dictator and his deindividualization. It argues that, while the emergence of the individual subject poses a threat to the traditional holistic society, it also constitutes a form of resistance to authoritarian power. The study, based on a close reading of the text, enables us to explore the progressive affirmation of the individual within contemporary Syrian literature.


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Submitted: Feb. 21, 2023 | Accepted: May 22, 2023 | Published Aug. 29, 2023 | Language: fr

Keywords Individuality • Collective sphere • Syrian novel • Dictatorship • Salim Barakat • Contemporary Arabic literature

Copyright © 2023 Greta Sala. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/01/002


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