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" The gap between the literature and the cultural reality of the Arab Spring: Reading Thirlwell's 'Kapow!' and Azzam's 'Sarmada' as dramatizations of the Arab Spring "
Areej Bahhari
Raschke, Debrah
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803819
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TL48623
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1762586544; 10009447
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Ayubi, Zahra M. Shoaib
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The gap between the literature and the cultural reality of the Arab Spring: Reading Thirlwell's 'Kapow!' and Azzam's 'Sarmada' as dramatizations of the Arab Spring\ Areej BahhariRaschke, Debrah
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Southeast Missouri State University
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2015
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M.A.
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College of Liberal Arts
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2015
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83
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Committee members: Hosselkus, Erika; Rieger, Christopher
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-46092-5
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This thesis reads Adam Thirlwell’s <i>Kapow!</i> and Fadi Azzam’s <i>Sarmada</i> as dramatizations of the Arab Spring. It focuses on how the Arab Spring uprisings and conflicts that affected the lives of Arab citizens are portrayed in the literature that attempts to deal with this historical movement. Thirlwell foregrounds the elements of the experimental novel to convey this event, but his narrator leaves the story of the Arab Spring backstage. On the other hand, Fadi Azzam employs magical realism in <i>Sarmada</i>, introducing a unique community who lives in a spiritual world. <i>Sarmada</i> provides a critical view of fundamentalism through the use of magical realism, which misrepresents life within the contemporary Syrian society. Throughout the portrayal of these two novels, a disturbing gap emerges between the current literature and the cultural reality of the Arab Spring.
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British and Irish literature
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Language, literature and linguistics
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Raschke, Debrah
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College of Liberal ArtsSoutheast Missouri State University
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