Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, Zora Neale Hurston’s Sweat, and Robert Lowell’s “Night Sweat”: An Autobiographical Confessional Reading

نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية

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قسم اللغة الانجليزية كلية الاداب جامعة دمياط

10.21608/jfafu.2025.430604.2323

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The paper investigates the aspects of autobiographical and confessional writings in different works – a play, a short story, and a poem by three different authors tackling the same symbolic title, “Sweat,” with a view to presenting a historical cultural and personal insights. This paper aims to examine three literary works; namely, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, Zora Neale Hurston’s Sweat, and Robert Lowell’s Night Sweat from a confessional point of view, because they happen to have similar tendencies of revealing a main concern with internal human conflict and personal suffering. The research tackles a journey in the inner feelings of a playwright, a novelist, and a poet. All three writers attempt, each in his preferable genre, to construct the features of an inner journey with a view to enlightening the world of the reader. ‘Sweat’ Symbolizes the hardships in each work in this paper. All the three works deal with the attitude to confess different types of sorrow and drudging in life, though each work targets a different kind of suffering. h physical and psychological agony. The three examined works have proven that keeping self-integration and spirit of defiance and insistence on belonging are key to self-redemption and defying pressures, preservation, and shattering forces of collapse.

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مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم
المجلد 17، العدد 1 - الرقم المسلسل للعدد 1
اللغويات والثقافات المقارنة
يناير 2025
الصفحة 1571-1602

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