This study of the rhetoric of Arab American autobiography examines “the rhetoric of cultural encounter” in the autobiographies of three post-1948 Arab American writers: Edward Said's Out of Place , Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage, and Fawaz Turki's Exile's Return. The three autho…
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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…
This thesis explores the Orientalist discourse in four of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems and two of his prose essays. The major aspects of Orientalism examined in Poe’s works rely on the theortical ideas of Edwad Said’s Orientalism and other ideas developed by important Arab writers. S…
Goethe's West-östlicher Divan often elicits contradictory responses - for some, it is a beacon of tolerance and engagement, and for others, an appropriating Orientalist discourse. In this essay I argue that both definitions apply to different portions of the work: the voice of d…
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…