Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature
Since the work of Edward Said first appeared, countless studies have shown the ways in which Western writers–sometimes unwittingly–participate in the oversimplified East/West dichotomy of Orientalism. Yet no study has considered how writers from the so-called Orient approach this idea. A wide-ranging survey of the vast and diverse world of Anglophone Arab literature, Immigrant Narratives examines the…