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To approach the problem of individual oppression with an international
perspective drawing on Foucauldian concepts, this paper compares George
Orwell’s 1984 (1949) and the Iraqi Sinan Antoon’s I’jaam (2004), which
was translated into English in 2007. Even though Orwell and Antoon come
from dissimilar cultural backgrounds, religions and epochs, they have tackled the issue of individuals’ oppression through their oppressed characters in
a strikingly similar way. Hence, by applying the theories of both the American School of Comparative Literature and Foucauldian concepts, the current
study attempts to establish a relationship between the Western and Eastern
ways of dealing with the issue of oppression as an international problem in
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