عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
TL48303
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Postmodern tendencies in contemporary Arab American novel
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Ibrahim Azizi
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Yang, Lingyan
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
184
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Committee members: Orchard, Christopher; Slater, Thomas
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Text of Note
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-94765-6
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
English
Body granting the degree
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Text preceding or following the note
2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Comparative literature; American literature; Ethnic studies; Literary translation; Audience; Postmodernism; Novels; Attitudes; Politics; Otherness
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arab american literature;Arab american novel;Contemporary arab american novel;Postmodern novel;Postmodernism;Postmodernist literary theory
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Pul, Hippolyt Akow Saamwan
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Yang, Lingyan
CORPORATE BODY NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Subdivision
English
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
1702717219; 3716218
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Thesis]
276903
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