عنوان

Representations of Arab women writers and their texts in the West

Number

TL48337

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Representations of Arab women writers and their texts in the West

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Miram AbuDaqqa

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Laird, Holly

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Tulsa

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

194

Text of Note

Committee members: Fuller, Randall; Nogueira, Claudia

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-93163-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

English Language and Literature

Body granting the degree

The University of Tulsa

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This dissertation examines, first, how novels by contemporary Arab women writers have been received in Western culture; their reception has for centuries been shaped by an orientalist discourse governed by institutionalized stereotypes of the Arab female as victim. Second, it examines Arab women writers' revisions of those stereotypes and prior neo-imperialist narratives about the Middle East. Standards of translation and publication of Arab women's texts in Western countries are predetermined, to some extent, by ideological assumptions of Western publishers, editors, and reviewers. Following Chapter 1 on the construction of the Arab (Muslim) woman from the Middle East within Western culture, Chapters 2 and 3 examine narrative texts written by Hanan Al-Shaykh (The Story of Zahra 1980; trans. 1986) and Fadia Faqir (The Cry of the Dove 2007), who both received much attention in the Western literary and academic marketplace, for novels that reproduce stereotypical constructs of Arab women. Chapters 4 and 5 examine novels written by Ahdaf Soueif (The Map of Love 1997) and Radwa Ashour (The Woman from Tantoura 2010; trans. 2014), who are both renowned writers in the Arab world but have received far less notice by Western publishers and scholars. Chapters 2 through 5 also represent four discrete stages in the development of contemporary Arab women writers' introduction to the Western literary marketplace. An Epilogue considers the problem of Western representations of Arab women in mainstream contemporary media.

Middle Eastern literature; Womens studies; Literary translation; Stereotypes; Narratives; Women; Ideology; Novels

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arab women writers;Western culture;Western publishers

Baker, Dustin

Laird, Holly

Subdivision

English Language and Literature

The University of Tulsa

Call Number

1707928981; 3715123

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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