Violence, War and Coercion in Louis Ferdinand Celine’s Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (1932) and Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone (2007)
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Date
2020
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
The present research paper falls within the field of comparative literature. It aims to compare
the French novelist Louis Ferdinand Celine’s Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (1932) and the
Sierra Leonean author Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone (2007). Our major interest in this
dissertation is to explore the literary affinities between these two works and to analyze their
depiction and interpretation of violence, war and coercion as it is experienced by both authors
respectively in France and Sierra Leone. In order to reach the main objectives of this research,
we have made appeal to the theory put forward by Hanna Arendt,War and Revolution as it is
discussed and analyzed in her book On Revolution (1963). We have divided our dissertation
into two chapters. The first chapter is entitled violence in Celine’s and Beah’s novels
(physical and psychological violence). The second chapter entitled war and coercion in the
two works. Finally, in the conclusion we have given an overview about the ideas that are
developed in our present dissertation and we have confirmed our hypothesis.
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30cm ; 58p.
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Beah, Celine, coercion, revolution, violence, war
Citation
Comparative Literature