Essay On Resistance Literature

Resistance Literature argues for the significance of literary texts. It is a tool of the powerless to protest against an aggressor and an expression of rebellion and refusal. Oppression and resistance are two poles of resistance literature. Oppression manifests in different forms; injustice, colonialism, gender differences, dictatorial regimes as in totalitarianism, abuse of power and ethnicity. “Resistance literature calls attention to itself and to literature in general, as a political and politicized activity. The literature of resistance sees itself further as immediately and directly involved in a struggle against ascendant or dominant forms of ideological and cultural production” (Deshazer 9). Resistance as a term has various definitions;

For Kanfani, literature itself is an arena for struggle” (Aschcroft 229). Ghassan Kanfani says in his study that, “The attempts of a history of the resistance literature of a given people are usually, for reasons that are self-evident, accomplished after liberation.” (Kanfani 11) There is also the term ‘Poetry of Resistance’ which “refers to Palestinian poetry that opposes all oppression, regardless of where it takes place, without geographical distinctions.” (Elad

It is a political novel written with intent to warn the reader of the West of the dangers of totalitarian regimes. George Orwell (1903- 1950) portrays the perfect totalitarian society, the most extreme realization imaginable of a modern day tyrannical government with absolute power. The protagonist of the novel is Winston Smith, a minor member of the ruling party. He hates totalitarian control and enforced repression. He harbors revolutionary dreams that lead to his ruin, but till the end, he keeps on hoping and resisting, despite the fact that he is captured and torture for trying to have his own life style and free