عنوان

Fictions of Revolution: Empire and Nation in Lawrence Durrell, Naguib Mahfouz, John Wilcox, and Bahaa Taher

Number

TL47875

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Fictions of Revolution: Empire and Nation in Lawrence Durrell, Naguib Mahfouz, John Wilcox, and Bahaa Taher

General Material Designation

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General Material Designation

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General Material Designation

[Thesis]

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Rania M. Mahmoud

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Cummings, Katherine; Silberstein, Sandra

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Washington

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

232

Text of Note

Committee members: Colla, Elliott; Reddy, Chandan

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-11001-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

English

Body granting the degree

University of Washington

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

This dissertation engages postcolonial theory and historiography in order to illuminate our understanding of the ways in which literary works re-create and interrogate history and, to evoke Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'world' worlds. This study provides a comparative analysis of narrations of the 1881-1882 Urabi Revolution and the 1919 Revolution in British and Egyptian fiction from 1957 to 2007. In engaging the Bildungsroman, these works construct competing histories of Egypt's revolutions. Confirming colonial accounts of these revolutions, the British novels view Egyptian subjectivity as frozen and unchanging. In contrast, the Egyptian fictions present these events as ongoing and always open to re-definition. Ultimately, these narratives reflect different perceptions of Egyptian identity and, in more general terms, varying views of history.

Comparative literature; Middle Eastern literature; Subjectivity; Narratives; Historiography; Novels; Politics; Romance languages; British English; Occupations; Fiction; Feminism; Interference (Learning); Ideology; British & Irish literature

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Arabic literature;Authors;British literature;Durrell, lawrence;Egypt;Egyptian arab;Mahfouz, najib;Taher, bahaa;Wilcox, john

Gormus, Evrim

Cummings, Katherine; Silberstein, Sandra

Subdivision

English

University of Washington

Call Number

1608992559; 3631904

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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