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
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.
Submitted: Feb. 21, 2023 | Accepted: May 22, 2023 | Published Aug. 29, 2023 | Language: fr
Keywords Salim Barakat • Collective sphere • Syrian novel • Contemporary Arabic literature • Dictatorship • Individuality
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ECF_article_12186 |
dc.title |
Against Collectivity and Dictatorship: The Revolution of the Individual in Salīm Barakāt’s Kuhūf Hāydrāhūdāhūs |
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Sala Greta |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Research Article |
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fr |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2023/1/a-lencontre-de-la-collectivite-et-de-la-dictature/ |
dc.description.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. |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 59 | June 2023 |
dc.issued |
2023-08-29 |
dc.dateAccepted |
2023-05-22 |
dc.dateSubmitted |
2023-02-21 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2385-3042 |
dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/01/002 |
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yes |
dc.subject |
Collective sphere |
dc.subject |
Contemporary Arabic literature |
dc.subject |
Dictatorship |
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Individuality |
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Salim Barakat |
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Syrian novel |
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