عنوان

Saudi Arabia in the German-speaking imagination: Identity, space and representation

شماره

TL48781

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Saudi Arabia in the German-speaking imagination: Identity, space and representation

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Antonella Cassia

نام ساير پديدآوران

Kosta, Barbara

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Arizona

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

نام خاص و کميت اثر

189

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Hudson, Leila; Martinson, Steven

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-73710-2

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

German Studies

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

The University of Arizona

امتياز متن

2016

متن يادداشت

This research aims to explore how representations of Saudi Arabia in German travel literature, pilgrimage accounts and online media have transformed the Saudi Arabian space and its place in the European imagination. German travelers, pilgrims, and expatriates enter the foreign Saudi Arabian space, and decipher it in their narratives. The diachronic analysis of several representative texts by German authors from the 18^th and 19^th centuries narrating their journey to what is today known as Saudi Arabia, shows that the images conveyed in their writings should be conceived in a multidimensional way beyond the lens of historical analysis, taking into account notions of gender, personal motivations, nationality and religion. Analysis of pilgrimage accounts by German converts from the 20^th and 21^st century reveals an unreflected representation of Western societies and German people in the Middle East. These narratives play a fundamental role in building a bridge connecting Muslim immigrants living in the diaspora with German converts. However, to quote Marcia Hermansen (1999) "even though Western Muslim narrators avoid the excesses of their Christian precursors, they are not completely free from a colonial gaze and "Orientalist" attitudes": in their narratives both the desert and the Bedouins become an imagined and fictionalized trope. In the last part of my dissertation I explore the blogosphere produced by German expatriates living in Saudi Arabia, arguing that expatriate blogs have become a space for cultural representation and othering, that share similarities with the genre of travel writing.

موضوع مستند نشده

Germanic literature; Religion; Diaspora; Blogs; Narratives; Space; Cultural identity; Language culture relationship; Eye movements; Immigrants; Historical text analysis; Middle Eastern studies; German; Language history; Attitudes; Otherness

اصطلاح موضوعی

Language, literature and linguistics;Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Asad, Muhammad;Blogs;Conversion to Islam;German travelers;Pilgrimage narratives;Saudi arabia

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jalalzai, Sajida

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Kosta, Barbara

تقسيم فرعي

German Studies

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

The University of Arizona

شماره بازیابی

1797442258; 10110465

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y