عنوان

Writing Amrīkā: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature

شماره

TL47978

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Writing Amrīkā: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Benjamin Lenox Smith

نام ساير پديدآوران

Granara, William E.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Harvard University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2014

نام خاص و کميت اثر

257

متن يادداشت

Committee members: El-Rouayheb, Khaled; Granara, William E.; Naddaff, Sandra

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-33542-2

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Harvard University

امتياز متن

2014

متن يادداشت

My dissertation, Writing Amrīkā: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature is an examination of this cross-cultural literary encounter primarily through fictional prose written in Arabic from the beginning of the 20^th century into the 21^st century. The texts studied in this dissertation are set in America, providing a unique entry point into questions about how Arab authors choose to represent Arab characters experiencing their American surroundings. While each text is treated as a unique literary production emerging from a contingent historical moment, an attempt is made to highlight the continuities and ruptures that exist in both the content and form of these texts spanning a century of the Arab literary experience with America. I argue that this body of literature can be understood through its own literary history of the American encounter in Arabic literature; a literary history in dialogue with an East-West encounter that has more frequently represented the western 'Other' through European characters and locales. In focusing on the process of identification by Arab characters in America this dissertation argues that the American encounter initiates a particular ambivalence resulting in multiple, and often contradictory, identifications on behalf of the Arab characters which result in poignant crises and strained narrative resolutions.

موضوع مستند نشده

Modern literature; Middle Eastern literature; Writing; Historical text analysis; Prose; Arabic language; Literary criticism; Literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Language, literature and linguistics;America;Arabic;Identity;Literature;Mahjar;Travel

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ensing, Leah

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Granara, William E.

تقسيم فرعي

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Harvard University

شماره بازیابی

1625428954; 3645067

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y