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" Narrating dictatorship, reconstructing nations: The representation of dictators in the arabic dictator novel "
Sami M. Alkyam
Songolo, Aliko
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803791
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TL48594
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1756761268; 3746639
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Andruss, Jessica Hope
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Narrating dictatorship, reconstructing nations: The representation of dictators in the arabic dictator novel\ Sami M. AlkyamSongolo, Aliko
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The University of Wisconsin - Madison
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2016
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Ph.D.
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African Languages & Literature
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2016
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222
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Committee members: Cowell, Dustin; El nossery, Nevine; England, Samuel; Layoun, Mary N.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-40092-1
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The dictators who emerged after independence in the Arab World had a profound effect on their nations and the literary scene. Early on after independence, Arab dictators exploited many strategies such as the media, the historical narratives of their nations, and prose narrative to construct a public persona of themselves that would eventually grow to become mythological. This dissertation examines novels that address the issue of dictatorship, its various configurations, and the politics of history—the exclusive history told by dictators— by offering a textual and contextual discussion of four recent Arabic novels from Algeria, Morocco, Yemen and Egypt. It calls attention to the parallel/s between narrative and the rhetorical processes and structures that once played a role in empowering dictators and helping them to create a god-like image of themselves. It also traces how novels can be read as tools of dissent against Arab dictators’ ongoing rhetorical self-empowering over their own people and nations.
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African literature; Historical text analysis; Narratives; Arabic language; Prose; Literary criticism; Novels; Politics
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Language, literature and linguistics;Arabic;Authoritarian;Body and nation states;Dictator novels
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Songolo, Aliko
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African Languages LiteratureThe University of Wisconsin - Madison
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