Committed literature
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Committed literature (French: littérature engagée) can be defined as an approach of an author, poet, novelist, playwright or composer who commits their work to defend or assert an ethical, political, social, ideological or religious view, most often through their works but also can loosely be defined as being through their direct intervention as an "intellectual", in public affairs (Crowly, 2018).[1] Historically, a work is said to have achieved the status of committed within the sphere of committed literature when it has social of political influence for the defence or assertion of the aforementioned view. It can also achieve this status when the importance on a given subject is recognised and it has "open-ended engagement with contemporary history” (Gasiorek & James, 2012, p. 613).[2] It has also been defined as the author, composer, poet, writer or playwright taking sides in order to take action (Patterson, 2015).[3] Additionally, it has been argued that committed literature rose to popularity within socialist circles within the fifties which aligns with the strong political movements characteristic of the time period.[4] Taha Hussain in June 1947 may have been the first to use the term within his Les Temps Moderns.[4] The concept was then led not long after by some existentialist writers like Jean- Paul Sartre exploring the definition in his work What Is Literature?[5] and Lebanese literary magazine Al Adab as one of the followers of this approach.[6]
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