[Download Book] Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature - Wail S Hassan

Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature

Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature

Since the work of Edward Said first appeared, countless studies have shown the ways in which Western writers--sometimes unwittingly--participate in the oversimplified East/West dichotomy of Orientalism. Yet no study has considered how writers from the so-called Orient approach this idea. A wide-ranging survey of the vast and diverse world of Anglophone Arab literature, Immigrant Narratives examines the complex ways in which Arab emigres contend with, resist, and participate in the problems of Orientalism. Hassan's account begins in the early twentieth century, as he considers the pioneering Lebanese American writers, Ameen Rihani and Kahlil Gibran. The former's seminal novel, The Book of Khalid sought to fuse Arabic and European literary traditions in search of a civilizational synthesis, whereas the latter found success by mixing Hindu, Christian, mystical, and English Romantic ideas into a popular spiritualism. Hassan then considers Arab immigrant life-writing, ranging from

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Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature

Author : Wail S Hassan

Pages : 278 pages

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN-10 : 0199354979

ISBN-13 : 9780199354979








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