Wail S. Hassan

Broschiertes Buch

Immigrant Narratives

Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780199354979
• ISBN-10: 0199354979
• Artikelnr.: 39146995