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" Fictions of Revolution: Empire and Nation in Lawrence Durrell, Naguib Mahfouz, John Wilcox, and Bahaa Taher "
Rania M. Mahmoud
Cummings, Katherine; Silberstein, Sandra
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803101
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TL47875
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1608992559; 3631904
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Gormus, Evrim
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Fictions of Revolution: Empire and Nation in Lawrence Durrell, Naguib Mahfouz, John Wilcox, and Bahaa Taher\ Rania M. MahmoudCummings, Katherine; Silberstein, Sandra
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University of Washington
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2014
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Ph.D.
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English
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2014
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232
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Committee members: Colla, Elliott; Reddy, Chandan
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-11001-2
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This dissertation engages postcolonial theory and historiography in order to illuminate our understanding of the ways in which literary works re-create and interrogate history and, to evoke Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'world' worlds. This study provides a comparative analysis of narrations of the 1881-1882 Urabi Revolution and the 1919 Revolution in British and Egyptian fiction from 1957 to 2007. In engaging the <i>Bildungsroman,</i> these works construct competing histories of Egypt's revolutions. Confirming colonial accounts of these revolutions, the British novels view Egyptian subjectivity as frozen and unchanging. In contrast, the Egyptian fictions present these events as ongoing and always open to re-definition. Ultimately, these narratives reflect different perceptions of Egyptian identity and, in more general terms, varying views of history.
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Comparative literature; Middle Eastern literature; Subjectivity; Narratives; Historiography; Novels; Politics; Romance languages; British English; Occupations; Fiction; Feminism; Interference (Learning); Ideology; British Irish literature
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Language, literature and linguistics;Arabic literature;Authors;British literature;Durrell, lawrence;Egypt;Egyptian arab;Mahfouz, najib;Taher, bahaa;Wilcox, john
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Cummings, Katherine; Silberstein, Sandra
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EnglishUniversity of Washington
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