Immigrant Narratives - Orientalism Cultural Translation in Arab American Arab British

Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, Immigrant Narratives investigates how key Arab American and Arab British writers have described their immigrant experiences, and in so doing acted as mediators and interpreters between cultures, and how they have forged new identities in their adopted countries.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1 The Rise of Arab American Literature


• 2 The Gibran Phenomenon


• 3 The Emergence of Autobiography


• 4 The Retreat of Cultural Translation


• 5 Exilic Memoirs


• 6 Academic Itineraries


• 7 Postcolonial Translation


• 8 Muslim Immigrant Fiction


• 9 Queering Orientalism


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Works Cited


• Index

About the author

Waïl S. Hassan is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction, co-editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz, and translator of Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language.

Summary

Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, Immigrant Narratives investigates how key Arab American and Arab British writers have described their immigrant experiences, and in so doing acted as mediators and interpreters between cultures, and how they have forged new identities in their adopted countries.

Product details

• Authors: Wail S Hassan, Wail S. Hassan, Wail S. (Associate Professor of Comparativ Hassan, Hassan Wail S.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2014
• EAN: 9780199354979
• ISBN: 978-0-19-935497-9
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples