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Images of self and other: The journe...

Al-Hussamy, Raghad.

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Images of self and other: The journey to Europe in modern Arabic prose narratives.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Images of self and other: The journey to Europe in modern Arabic prose narratives./
作者:	Al-Hussamy, Raghad.
面頁冊數:	467 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1325.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
標題:	Literature, Comparative. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3215219
ISBN:	9780542654664

Images of self and other: The journey to Europe in modern Arabic prose narratives.
Al-Hussamy, Raghad.

Images of self and other: The journey to Europe in modern Arabic prose narratives. - 467 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1325.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2006.

This study explores the image of self and other, East and West, in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arabic prose narratives, by focusing on the journey to Europe in these texts. It divides this image into two dominant types: utopian and nationalist, which are sometimes transcended into a third one: dialectical. These images are defined with reference to Tzvetan Todorov's definition of exoticism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, and relativism. Accordingly, the utopian image idealizes the other; the nationalist idealizes the self; while the dialectical negotiates the two. Although the three images are not chronological, the first one tends to come in the first stage of contact with the other, the second after confrontation with it, while the third after a long period of contact with the other and debate about it. During the period that this study covers, roughly from the 1830s to the 1960s, the early image of Europe (early to mid-nineteenth century) was predominantly utopian, as colonialism was not fully established yet in the Arab world. In the late nineteenth century, that image became predominantly anti-utopian, as more Arab lands were falling under European colonial rule. In the twentieth century, the above two images recurred, but they became more secular. Finally, in the post-colonial period, a more dialectical image that negotiates the other two appeared.

ISBN: 9780542654664Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

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