This dissertation explores the tensions inherent in historical appropriation by juxtaposing the ideas in Orientalism by Edward Said against selected projects, paintings and writings of Egyptian intellectual Hassan Fathy. Said's methodology, of linking the hegemonic hypotheses of…
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Postcolonial literatures are rewritings of colonial images. To provide a credible and legitimate image of their own past, postcolonial literatures draw upon the tropes and vocabulary of the colonizer. The colonial/orientalist discourse structures the frameworks of the postcoloni…
Memoires van de Amerikaanse cultuurfilosoof van Palestijnse origine tot 1967, waarbij zijn leven als vluchteling in Egypte en Libanon tot aan het begin van zijn studie in Harvard centraal staat.
