Resistance literature

Resistance literature is a subset of literary output that is a socio-political activity involved in a struggle against dominant ideologies.[1] Resistance literature shows us the writer's fight whether it be gender-based oppression, liberation struggles or exile. It is a global phenomenon.[1][2] It aims to challenge the norm and defy cultural practices and in turn give hope.[1][3] While armed resistance can cause governmental and civil change, only through literary elements can the fight win against cultural supremacy, as explained by Barbara Harlow's book Resistance Literature, first published in 1987.[4] Resistance could also be in the form of humour, bitching and gossip.[5]

References

1. DeShazer, Mary K. (1994). A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States. University of Michigan Press. pp. 9. ISBN 978-0-472-06563-9. resistance literature.
2. Kaplan, Caren (1989). "Resistance Literature, and: The Writer Written: The Artist and Creation in the New Literatures in English (review)". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 35 (1): 181–186. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0551. ISSN 1080-658X. S2CID 161854949.
3. Bevan, David (1990). Literature and War. Rodopi. p. 123. ISBN 978-90-5183-162-7.
4. "Erin Hurt on "Resistance Literature" | E3W Review of Books". www.dwrl.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
5. Dutta, Mohan J. (2012). Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change. Purdue University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-55753-627-3.

Bibliography

• Lewis, T. (2008). Literature as Resistance. The Hudson Review,60(4), 655–664. Retrieved February 27, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/20464787