Author

Publication

1998 - Sussex Academic Press, Portland, Ore, Oregon

Language

English

Word Count

44,250 words, Guess

Page Count

177 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL692504M
  • ISBN-101898723842
  • OCLC Control Number37695069
  • Library of Congress Control Number97039709
  • Goodreads4430625

Classifications

  • DDC909/.0974924
  • LCCDS36.82 .N37 1998

Description

This book looks at the English writings of four twentieth-century Anglo-Arab and Arab American writers: Ameen Rihani, Khalil Jibran, George Antonius and Edward Atiyah. The Introduction investigates: Why should an Arab writer write in English? How do these writers negotiate encoding Arab meanings within an alien discourse? How is Anglo-Arab discourse political, and what are its politics? Does Anglo-Arab writing belong to the category of post-colonial literature? These issues are then explored at greater length in the succeeding chapters. While each writer is assigned a separate chapter, cross-referencing creates a sustained "dialogue" between two or more writers in a given chapter.

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Other Editions

  • The Arab writer in English: Arab themes in a metropolitan language, 1908-1958Sussex Academic Press1998-01-01

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