Literature as a Projection of Mass Mobility A Comparative Reflection of Poems Recited on Development through Cooperation Campaign and Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Projects
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Literature as a Projection of Mass Mobility: A Comparative Reflection of Poems Recited on Development through Cooperation Campaign (DCC) and Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) Projects was designed to disclose literature’s role for mass mobility from Marxists’ dialectical materialist perspective. The sample analysis was made based on basic themes the poems recited for the projects. Some basic similarities are reflected in the poems. They are didactic in nature, demand driven production of art the respective governments called artists to do. Likewise, the poems designed for the projects reflect some differences. Poems of DCC are broader which include the poems produced for GERD. In addition, the songs composed for DCC, are more qualified than their GERD counterparts. Moreover, the poems produced for GERD are full of intertextual discourses where the various songs and traditions exploited. Above all, poems composed for both the projects have immense potential for mass mobility.
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