The Ideology of the Illiterate: A Marxist Reading of Okot p’ Bitek’s ‘Song of Lawino’ and Abdul Rahman Alabnudi’s ‘The Letters of Heraji Elgot’
Younis, Lamees;
Abstract
This thesis discusses the process of consciousness reformation
and ideology affirmation of the illiterate social subjects
that happens in an implicit manner based upon observing and
experiencing. The thesis studies this process of consciousness reformation
and affirmation of the ideology of the lower classes and
the colonized social subjects in two books of poems, the Ugandan
Song of Lawino and the Egyptian The Letters of Heraji Elgot. The
thesis proves that the two texts belong to the category of
tendentious literature whose writers function as organic
intellectuals and committed writers. In delineating the process of
consciousness re-formation of the illiterate social subjects, the
thesis sticks to the Marxist framework of reference that gives due
importance to the study of the term ‘ideology’ as well as other
related terms like Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs),
‘hegemony’, ‘organic intellectual’ and ‘traditional intellectual’ that
help in studying the ideology of the illiterate.
and ideology affirmation of the illiterate social subjects
that happens in an implicit manner based upon observing and
experiencing. The thesis studies this process of consciousness reformation
and affirmation of the ideology of the lower classes and
the colonized social subjects in two books of poems, the Ugandan
Song of Lawino and the Egyptian The Letters of Heraji Elgot. The
thesis proves that the two texts belong to the category of
tendentious literature whose writers function as organic
intellectuals and committed writers. In delineating the process of
consciousness re-formation of the illiterate social subjects, the
thesis sticks to the Marxist framework of reference that gives due
importance to the study of the term ‘ideology’ as well as other
related terms like Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs),
‘hegemony’, ‘organic intellectual’ and ‘traditional intellectual’ that
help in studying the ideology of the illiterate.
Other data
| Title | The Ideology of the Illiterate: A Marxist Reading of Okot p’ Bitek’s ‘Song of Lawino’ and Abdul Rahman Alabnudi’s ‘The Letters of Heraji Elgot’ | Authors | Younis, Lamees | Keywords | s Marxist literary theory, ideology, consciousness reformation, illiterate, proletariat, Gramsci, hegemony, organic intellectual, traditional intellectual, new intellectual, Althusser, Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs), Acoli tribe, Uganda, Okot p’ Bitek, traditional literature, oral literature, tendentious/committed literature, Lawino, Egypt, Abdul Rahman Alabnudi, the High Dam, Heraji Elgot, letters, epistolary technique in poetry. | Issue Date | 2015 |
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