The Arab Writer in English: Arab Themes in a Metropolitan Language 1908-58

by Geoffrey Nash

Overview

ìAll who are interested in the varieties and complexities of the relationship between the Arab world and the West in the twentieth century should consult it and ponder the issues that it so provocatively raises.î From the Foreword by Miles L. Bradbury, University of Maryland. ìAn innovative book which will be of great interest to anyone working in comparative literature or post-colonialism.îProfessor Susan Bassnett, Centre for British & Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Warwick. 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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845191931
Publisher:	Sussex Academic Press
Publication date:	05/01/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Geoffrey Nash is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland. He is the author of The Anglo-Arab Encounter: Fiction and Autobiography by Arab Writers in English; Writing Muslim Identity; and co-editor of Postcolonialism and Islam.

Table of Contents

Ameen Rihani—cross-cultural disclosures
Khalil Jibran—from Arab mahjar to consumerist prophet
Ameen Rihani—pan-Arab imaginings
Ameen Rihani—decolonizing Arabia
George Antonius—Anglo-Arab disjunction
Edward Atiyah—language and colonization
Edward Atiyah—the end of Anglo-Arab politics
the politics of Anglo-Arab discourse.

Editorial Reviews

Looks at the English writings of four 20th-century Anglo-Arab and Arab-American writers: Ameen Rihani, Khalil Jibran, George Antonius, and Edward Atiyah. Explores issues surrounding how the writers encode Arab meanings within an alien discourse, the politics of Anglo-Arab discourse, and Anglo-Arab writing as part of post-colonial literature. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

An innovative book which will be of great interest to anyone working in comparative literature or post-colonialism.”  —Professor Susan Bassnett, Centre for British & Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Warwick

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