عنوان

The gap between the literature and the cultural reality of the Arab Spring: Reading Thirlwell's 'Kapow!' and Azzam's 'Sarmada' as dramatizations of the Arab Spring

Number

TL48623

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

The gap between the literature and the cultural reality of the Arab Spring: Reading Thirlwell's 'Kapow!' and Azzam's 'Sarmada' as dramatizations of the Arab Spring

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Areej Bahhari

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Raschke, Debrah

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Southeast Missouri State University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

83

Text of Note

Committee members: Hosselkus, Erika; Rieger, Christopher

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-46092-5

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

College of Liberal Arts

Body granting the degree

Southeast Missouri State University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This thesis reads Adam Thirlwell's Kapow! and Fadi Azzam's Sarmada as dramatizations of the Arab Spring. It focuses on how the Arab Spring uprisings and conflicts that affected the lives of Arab citizens are portrayed in the literature that attempts to deal with this historical movement. Thirlwell foregrounds the elements of the experimental novel to convey this event, but his narrator leaves the story of the Arab Spring backstage. On the other hand, Fadi Azzam employs magical realism in Sarmada, introducing a unique community who lives in a spiritual world. Sarmada provides a critical view of fundamentalism through the use of magical realism, which misrepresents life within the contemporary Syrian society. Throughout the portrayal of these two novels, a disturbing gap emerges between the current literature and the cultural reality of the Arab Spring.

British and Irish literature

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics

Ayubi, Zahra M. Shoaib

Raschke, Debrah

Subdivision

College of Liberal Arts

Southeast Missouri State University

Call Number

1762586544; 10009447

Electronic name

p

[Thesis]

276903

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Y