Narrating dictatorship, reconstructing nations: The representation of dictators in the arabic dictator novel
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Sami M. Alkyam
نام ساير پديدآوران
Songolo, Aliko
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2016
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
222
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
Committee members: Cowell, Dustin; El nossery, Nevine; England, Samuel; Layoun, Mary N.
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-40092-1
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
نظم درجات
African Languages & Literature
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
امتياز متن
2016
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
The dictators who emerged after independence in the Arab World had a profound effect on their nations and the literary scene. Early on after independence, Arab dictators exploited many strategies such as the media, the historical narratives of their nations, and prose narrative to construct a public persona of themselves that would eventually grow to become mythological. This dissertation examines novels that address the issue of dictatorship, its various configurations, and the politics of history-the exclusive history told by dictators- by offering a textual and contextual discussion of four recent Arabic novels from Algeria, Morocco, Yemen and Egypt. It calls attention to the parallel/s between narrative and the rhetorical processes and structures that once played a role in empowering dictators and helping them to create a god-like image of themselves. It also traces how novels can be read as tools of dissent against Arab dictators' ongoing rhetorical self-empowering over their own people and nations.