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dc.identifier	ECF_article_12186
dc.title	Against Collectivity and Dictatorship: The Revolution of the Individual in Salīm Barakāt’s Kuhūf Hāydrāhūdāhūs
dc.contributor.author	Sala Greta
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.identifier.uri	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
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/01/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Collective sphere
dc.subject	Contemporary Arabic literature
dc.subject	Dictatorship
dc.subject	Individuality
dc.subject	Salim Barakat
dc.subject	Syrian novel

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

Greta Sala Inalco, Paris, France ; Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale», Italia

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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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Aug. 29, 2023

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May 22, 2023

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Feb. 21, 2023

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

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