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Abstract
The present thesis mainly examines the role of resistance literature in the struggle of the Guyanese and the Palestinian people against colonialism. For this purpose, the researcher chooses two different poets: Marin Carter and Mahmoud Darwish as representatives of the voice of resistance. As they belong to two different intellectual worlds, the Guyanese and the Palestinian literature, the researcher examines how each one reveals the unique experience of resistance of their oppressed peoples. Colonialism drives at imposing a military and an intellectual hegemony over the colonized. As a result, the battle of protecting the individual and the collective identity of the oppressed becomes a definite battle in the passage of resistance against colonialism.
Carter and Darwish, as active participants in the political context of their countries, reveal a solid involvement in the struggle for liberty. The researcher focuses on such involvement and highlights its impact on their poetry. In addition to the analysis of two major themes in their poems: the struggle for liberty and the search for identity , the study aims at drawing a comparison between the two poets to bring out the different ways they used to display the poetics of resistance.
The thesis is divided into an introduction and three chapters followed by a conclusion. The first chapter presents a theoretical background about resistance literature, its definition and the different critical points of view about the term. It also sheds the light on resistance poetry with examples from different cultures to highlight its common characteristics. The chapter ends with a brief historical note about colonialism in Guyana and Palestine in order to raise the political and the historical context in which their resistance poetry emerged.
The second chapter attempts to bring into light the role of Carter and Darwish as freedom fighters, who through their poetry, manage to agitate the masses into revolutionary actions against the occupation. It also illustrates how their political detention and their imprisonment experience have a great influence on the aesthetics of their resistance poetry. The chapter ends with a comparison which traces the similarities and the differences in demonstrating such theme.
The third chapter tackles the theme of the search of the lost identity in the resistance poetry of Martin Carter and Mahmoud Darwish. It also demonstrates how both poets contribute to raising the awareness of their people in the anti-colonial struggle against colonialism. It ends with a comparison between both poets to clarify the points of similarity and difference between them.
In brief, the centerpiece of the thesis is that literature is not detached from the armed liberation struggle. It is a complementary part of the resistance movement. The study reflects to what extent both poets, through their poetry, manage to express the suffering of their oppressed people. The comparison between Carter and Darwish provides new insights in analyzing the aesthetics of the resistance poetry.