Speaking in Tongues: Arab Autobiographical Discourses of Americanization
The article discusses narrative and ideological conceptualizations of Arab-American authors-immigrants who wrote their autobiographies in English, the primary case studies being Edward Said’s Out of Place, Ihab Hassan’s Out of Egypt, and Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage. The main focus is on the langu...
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| Формат: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Язык: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online-ссылка: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Итог: | The article discusses narrative and ideological conceptualizations of Arab-American authors-immigrants who wrote their autobiographies in English, the primary case studies being Edward Said’s Out of Place, Ihab Hassan’s Out of Egypt, and Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage. The main focus is on the language aspect – namely, Bakhtinian polyphony and hybridity – which exposes the unavoidable plurality of immigrant selfhood. |
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