Immigrant narratives: orientalism and cultural translation in arab american and arab british literature

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. Arab immigrants began to arrive in the United States in the late-nineteenth century and in Britain after World War Two. Those immigrants have produced a vast literature that remains relatively unknown outside of specialist circles. Like other ethnic literatures, Arab-American and Arab-British writing treats a variety of themes such as the immigrant experience, thelives of minorities, cultural misconceptions, and stereotypes. In addition tothat, Arab immigrant writing also revealsunique perspectives on complex issues that continue to shape our world today,such as inter-faith relations, the tangled politics of the Middle East, the role played first by the British empire then by the United States in the region, the representations of Arabs and Arab culture in British andAmerican societies, and the status of Muslim minorities there. Although thoseissues have acquired an unprecedented urgency in the post-9/11 period, they have preoccupied Arab-American and Arab-British writers since the early days ofthe twentieth century.Immigrant Narratives offers a critical reading of that tradition from its inception to the present. Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, it investigates how key novelists and autobiographers 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. INDICE: Preface Introduction 1 The Rise of Arab-American Literature 2 The Gibran Phenomenon 3 The Emergence of Autobiography 4 The Retreat of Cultural Translation 5 Exilic Memoirs 6 Academic Itineraries 7 Postcolonial Translation 8 Muslim Immigrant Fiction 9 Queering Orientalism Conclusion Works Cited

• ISBN: 978-0-19-979206-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés