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The Arab Writer in English
Arab Themes in a Metropolitan Language, 1908–1958

Geoffrey Nash

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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?


Foreword by Miles L. Bradbury
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Ameen Rihani: Cross-Cultural Disclosures
2 Khalil Jibran: From Arab mahjar to Consumerist Prophet
3 Ameen Rihani: Pan-Arab Imaginings
4 Ameen Rihani: Decolonizing Arabia
5 George Antonius: Anglo-Arab Disjunction
6 Edward Atiyah: Language and Colonization
7 Edward Atiyah: The End of Anglo-Arab Politics
8 The Politics of Anglo-Arab Discourse

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index


“All 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.” From the Foreword by Miles L. Bradbury, University of Maryland.

“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

 

Publication Details

 
Hardback ISBN:
978-1-898723-84-4
 
 
Page Extent / Format:
184 pp. / 229 x 152 mm
 
Release Date:
June 1998
  Illustrated:   No
 
Hardback Price:
£39.95 / $59.95
 
 

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