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TL48303
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Postmodern tendencies in contemporary Arab American novel
[Thesis]
Ibrahim Azizi
Yang, Lingyan
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
2015
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Committee members: Orchard, Christopher; Slater, Thomas
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-94765-6
Ph.D.
English
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
2015
This dissertation studies postmodernist tendencies in the narrative style and thematic structure of the novels of three contemporary Arab American novelists: Laila Halaby, Diana Abu-Jaber, and Rabih Alameddine. Reading these texts from postmodernist perspectives shows that while many readers of the Arab American novel are tempted to see this tradition in terms of postcoloniality and otherness, Arab American novelists employ urgent postmodern tendencies which, while maintaining their distinctiveness, relate them to a larger critical landscape and readership. Moving from a postmodernist political awareness and cultural relativism in Halaby's and Abu-Jaber's novels, my study argues that contemporary Arab American novel reaches a fully developed postmodernist attitude with the novels of Rabih Alameddine whose experimental and self-reflective novels point to a more complicated Arab American novel that moves away from cultural translation.
Comparative literature; American literature; Ethnic studies; Literary translation; Audience; Postmodernism; Novels; Attitudes; Politics; Otherness
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arab american literature;Arab american novel;Contemporary arab american novel;Postmodern novel;Postmodernism;Postmodernist literary theory
Pul, Hippolyt Akow Saamwan
Yang, Lingyan
English
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
1702717219; 3716218
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[Thesis]
276903
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Y
