Revue de Recherches et Etudes Scientifiques
Volume 20, Numéro 1, Pages 1325-1342
2026-01-26
“a Mask The Color Of The Sky”: Prison Literature As A Counter-hegemonic Discourse
Authors : Lazzaoui Hafsa .
Abstract
Prison literature is a powerful tool of resistance that confronts various forms of oppression and tyranny. The prison becomes a space for building the self and transcending physical barriers to expose domination, repression, and all kinds of violations. . Its aim is to offer an alternative discourse that legitimizes marginalized voices by challenging official narratives through presenting truth from the victim’s point of view and restoring value to both individual and collective experience. This is what the novelist tried to show in “A Mask the Color of the Sky” by the novelist Bassem Khundakji, presenting writing and literary creativity as a means to raise awareness and influence public opinion that can profoundly change reality, based on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict This is the content of the prison novel that seeks resistance through exposing hegemony to reveal the tyrannical discourse of authority, which has widened the gap between the self and the other.
Keywords
literature; prison; discourse; counter-narrative; hegemony
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