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Article Dans Une Revue Égypte Soudan mondes arabes Année : 2016

Love at the Time of Independence The Debates on Romantic Love in the Sudanese Left-Wing Press of the 1950s

Elena Vezzadini

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This article explores the way in which romantic love and companionate marriage were debated in Sudan at the time of independence by analysing a small corpus of love stories published in a special column of the left-wing newspaper al-Saraha. I start by contextualizing the left-wing press at a time of tremendous political, economic, and social change in Sudan as a key to understanding the pedagogical mission of al-Saraha. I then describe the various opinions on companionate marriage discussed in these texts and analyse them structurally, highlighting both common patterns and systematic omissions. Finally, I seek to interpret the spread of the ideal of romantic love in Sudan in relation to the theory of the rise of individualism as a sign of a modern State, and to show that the solution these texts proposed was not to disconnect individuals from society, but to reform society as a whole so as to harmonize collective and individual wills.
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hal-01423513 , version 1 (29-12-2016)

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Elena Vezzadini. Love at the Time of Independence The Debates on Romantic Love in the Sudanese Left-Wing Press of the 1950s. Égypte Soudan mondes arabes, 2016, Le Soudan, cinq ans après l'indépendance du Soudan du Sud, 14. ⟨hal-01423513⟩
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