John Millington Synge’s The Shadow of the Glen (1903) and kateb Yacine’s Mohamed prends ta valise (1971): A postcolonial study.
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2016
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University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
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The aim of this study is to examine the issue of postcolonial language in John
Millington Synge’s The Shadow of the Glen (1903) and Kateb Yacine’s Mohamed prends ta
valise (1971). Our major interest in this dissertation is to look for possible convergences
between the Irish playwright John Millington Synge, and the Algerian playwright Kateb
Yacine as postcolonial writers. Therefore, we have borrowed Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith
and Helen Tiffin’s concepts of Appropriation and Abrogation from their book entitled: The
Empire Writes Back (1989). In addition we have appealed to the concept of Cultural Identity
as developed by Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall. As a result, we have concluded that in spite
the distance that separated both playwrights in time and space, they used the colonizer’s
language and hybridized the cultural identity of their characters in a very similar way.
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50p.;30cm.(+cd)
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Arts Dramatiques et Lettres Anglaises