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Revolution in Omani Memory: Rethinking Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Work of the "Green Mountain Angels" and "A Woman from Dhofar"
Abstract
Revolution in Omani Memory: Rethinking Anti-Colonial Resistance in the work of the "Green Mountain Angels" and "A Woman from Dhofar." From the 1950s to the 1970s, there was a revolutionary struggle in the Arabian Gulf region, not only in the fields of the anti-colonial revolution in mountains, canyons, and on the sea, but in other fields; The texts reflected this revolutionary struggle, and its impact on the creation of a progressive consciousness resisting British colonial expansion, which began to take new forms of control, after the discovery of substantial oil reserves in the Arabian peninsula. The writings and texts of writers such as Abdullah al-Tai and Ahmad al-Zubaidi formed pioneering literature that revealed the British imperialist project and tracked its social, political, and cultural repercussions on society and the state through literary narrative. The writings of these pioneer Omani intellectuals' vanguard highlighted revolution, struggle, and anti-colonialism in harmony with a similar momentum they experienced from their direct interaction with their counterpart intellectuals in Kuwait, Bahrain, Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo. This paper sheds light on the thesis of the revolution in the writings of Abdullah al-Taei and Ahmed al-Zubaidi. More accurately, re-read the novels "Angels of the Green Mountain," and "A Woman of Dhofar." How has this literature been able to reflect the contradictions of an essential historical phase in the region at a time when colonial narratives have been dominant of telling the world what is happening in this region?
Discipline
History
Geographic Area
Gulf
Sub Area
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