Writing the Self and the Other: Reading Aboulela's The Translator and Soueif's The Map of Love in A Feminist, Postcolonial, Narratological Context
Kawthar Al-Othman
ISBN 10: 333096605X ISBN 13: 9783330966055
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64 pages. 8.66x5.91x0.15 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 333096605X
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The literature of the 'contact zone' has been approached in literary criticism quite a lot, but this book is concerned with the narrative style of Arab, Women, postcolonial writers, selecting Leila Aboulela's The Translator and Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love as a case study. It analyses the East-West encounter in the two narratives using a feminist, postcolonial, literary, linguistic approach. The study employs the analysis of characterisation in terms of voice(s) and viewpoint as analytical linguistic framework. The study concludes that though objectivity is a pointless aim, it is attempted by both novelists in two different styles. The two novels employ different voices in their representation, whether in representing the oriental Self or the occidental Other. Although the novelists differ in their narrative style, they share the aim of reforming the deformed image of the Orient to which they belong.
About the Author: Kawthar Al-Othman is a lecturer of English at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. She studied MA Literary Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her current research interests are Postcolonial Literature, World Literature written in English and Women Literature.
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Title: Writing the Self and the Other: Reading ...
Publisher: Noor Publishing
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New