A Fanonian Study Of Lady Augusta Gregory’s The Rising Of The Moon (1907)

Résumé: The following research work aims at studying and analysing Lady Gregory’s The Rising of The Moon (1907) in the light of Postcolonial theory put forward in Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of The Earth(1968), by focusing on the evolution of the native intellectaul and (ex) colonized authors through the three phases of “Assimilation”, “Return to the Source” to reach what Fanon qualifies “The Combating Phase”.Following the IMRAD method, our dissertion is devided into two chapters. While the first chapter is devoted to analyse the most important historical circumstances and key literary events that shaped Ireland’s literary history that deeply influenced the majority of Irish writers, poets and dramatists who produced a distinctive literature far from the shaddows of the colonizer, the second chapter examined particularly Lady Gregoey’s The Rising of The Moon through Fanon’s documentation on the evolution of the native intellectual. It has been revealed that in the play, Lady Gregory revived the Irish Celtic past through going back to Irish myths, folktales and nostalgic past in order to describe the current concerns and ordinary lives of the Irish peasants. In addition to this, it has been made clear that she attempted to reinterpret/rehabilitate some of the Irish revolutionary songs to show the richness of the Irish culture. Therefore, it can be said that Lady Gregory’s The Rising of the Moon is not only a comic play, but also a serious play that embodies serious themes such as Irish nationalism , heroic past and revolutionary ideas

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