Forms of social oppression in two novels "Hunger" by the Egyptian "Muhammad Al-Bassati" and "Memoirs of a Blood Seller" by the Chinese "Yuhua". | ||
| مجلة كلية الآداب - جامعة القاهرة | ||
| Volume 2023, Issue 7, July 2023 | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jarts.2023.221627.1371 | ||
| Author | ||
| YAN WEN | ||
| FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF ALEXANDRIA. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The research deals –From the perspective of comparative literature- with the forms of social oppression in the novel "Hunger" by the Egyptian writer "Muhammad Al-Bassati" and the novel "Memoirs of a Blood Seller" by the Chinese writer "Yuhua". The research concluded that there are some forms of social oppression in which the two novels differ. From the suffering of poverty and poor economic conditions, to marginalization and the form of social relations, and the forms of social oppression differ in some aspects related to the cultural differences and social conditions between the two countries. The research concluded that there are some forms of social oppression in which the two novels differ. These include unemployment and suffering in terms of children's education and even affections and marriage, and the impact of disasters on the poor; whether natural disasters or man-made disasters, while the two novels are similar to each other in some forms of oppression, such as poverty, social relations, and the suffering of marginalization. There are also many factors that contributed to the social oppression that the characters of the two novels were subjected to. Including poor infrastructure in the countryside, low level of education and services, and discrimination between urban and rural communities.Key words: social oppression, social injustice, comparative literature, Muhammad Al-Bassati, Yuhua. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| social oppression; Injustice; comparative literature | ||
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