Resistance Literature: History and Concept

Abstract

The history of resistance is as old as the world itself. Man over the eons has stood against all adverse forces of nature. It is an indisputable fact that his thoughts and ideas have never remained frozen and he has always been in the quest to raise the standard of his life. In this journey he was encountered umpteenth time by the forces of adversaries but he never surrendered against them. Rather he drove
pride by laying his life in his battle against evil and malevolent forces. The men of yonder times proudly narrated the tales of bravery and courage of their ancestors from one generation to the next. In true sense, these tales, anecdotes and ballads are what the concept of resistance in world literature evolved from. The current study has been done by using the secondary data i.e., retrieved from archives like books, research journals, web sources and interviews of various scholars.