Revolution and politics in the literature of the seas - a study in selected models

Abstract

This paper aims to shed light on the sea in the fictional achievement, by analyzing the political and revolutionary context of the texts. We relied on two Arab blogs and a Western one. With regard to Arab models, we chose Khoya Dahman's novel by Merzak Baqtash, and Hanna Mina's The Sail and the Storm. This choice came due to the similarity of the discourses between the two novels on the one hand, and the writers' commitment to national and liberation issues, and the similarity of the tragedies between the Algerian and Syrian people, which is clearly evident through the content. The two novels, as for the Western novel, we chose the story of a drowned man by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez for its realistic dimension, which is very close to the Arabic content. With the help of the thematic approach, we concluded that the critical voice of the marine characters, which emanates from the writer's commitment to the issues of his country, is the reason for the revolutionary and political discourses clearly manifested in the novel.