Strategies of Resistance in Elizabeth Laird’s Kiss the Dust | ||||
| مجلة کلية الآداب .جامعة بورسعيد | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 22, Issue 22, October 2022, Page 46-66 PDF (401.03 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfpsu.2022.121026.1163 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Hossam M. Alashqar 
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| English Department, Faculty of Arts, Port Said University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Elizabeth Laird’s novel, Kiss the Dust (1991) traces the fate of a Kurdish family living at Sulamanyia district in Iraq, and is narrated through the perspective of its young protagonist, Tara. Family members have been exposed to continuous raids of aggression by the Iraqi forces that deemed them as persona non grata. Thus, they were fated to a compulsory exile in Iran, and later in London. In their attempts to survive, family members like Rostom, kak Soran and Ashti, practised violent tactics against their oppressors, but later they realized that violence led only to hatred and bloodshed. Accordingly, they opted for nonviolent resistance in terms of immigration and acquiescence. Away from home, as asylum seekers in London, they decided a new turn of resistance based on publicizing their issue to the whole world. Moreover, they believed that wherever they were, it is Kurdistan, a home that is within themselves, even behind borders. In this sense, the current study employs Martin Luther King’s three forms of resistance: violence, acquiescence, and nonviolence, as the theoretical framework. The novel abounds in a variety of resistance tactics, but propagates the efficacy of nonviolence. تتبع اليزابيث ليرد فى روايتها "لثم التراب" (1991) مصير أسرة كردية تعيش فى حي السلمانية في بغداد وتسردها من خلال وجهة نظر البطلة الصغيرة تارا. يتعرض أفراد السرة لأشكال مستمرة من العنف على أيدى القوات العراقية التي تنظر إليهم بوصفهم أشخاصا غير مرغوب فيهم. لذلك وجدوا أنفسهم مجبرين على المنفى الإجباري فى إيران تارة ثم فى لندن تارة أخرى. وفى محاولاتهم المستميتة للحياة فإن شخوصا مثل رستم العم وكاك سوران الب وأشتى افبن يمارسون المقاومة العنيفة ضد القهر، لكنهم فيما بعد يدركون أن العنف لم يولد إلا مزيدا من الكراهية وسفك الدماء مما جعلهم يلجأون إلى نوعا آخر من المقاومة يتسم بعدم العنف في صورة الهجرة أو الخنوع. وفي منفاهم الأوربى في لندن يجاهدون من أجل توصيل رسالتهم العادلة للعالم أجمع مؤمنين بأن كردستان توجد أينما تواجدوا لأنها تكمن بداخلهم حتى عبر الحدود. والدراسة تستخدم أفكار مارتن لوثر كنج في هذا الشأن كإطار نظري، كما تؤكد ليرد على أن المقاومة السلمية أكثر فاعلية من المقاومة العنيفة. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| resistance; violence; acquiescence; nonviolence; Kurds; المقاومة; العنف; الخنوع; السلمية; الأكراد | ||||
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