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POLITICS
HISS I, WEEK 11
WHAT IS LITERATURE?
"the profession of an author; the production of
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Politics has always attracted negative appellations to itself
THE CONNECTIONS
History and politics form crucial aspects of
literary analysis
Literary analysis helps us understand the
political undertones of a text
Literary analysis is a process of evaluating a
text base on both its content and context.
The sociological approach to literature
Literature exists in a context
The Marxist literary theory Literature and
class, oppressions and social conflicts
EXAMPLES:
Achebes pre colonial texts have been seen by
own oppression
Poetry
Union
Not me alone
I know now
But all the whole oppressed
Poor world,
White and black,
Must put their hands with mine
To shake the pillars of those temples
Wherein the false gods dwell
And worn-out altars stand
Too well defended,
And the rule of greeds upheld
That must be ended.
Langston Hughes