Writing Back in Modern Fiction

Zusatztext

This book gives due respect to modern and contemporary novels, both in English and Arabic. It studies how some writes are imprisoned, oppressed and sometimes raped by despots, either within the confines of prisons or outside them. It also studies Radwa Ashours Atyaf/Specters as an Egyptian campus novel, and how far the political, social and economical conditions have negatively affected such academic life. Moreover, it discusses assimilation in Michael Ondaatjes The English Patient (1992) as a journey for self-discovery. Some of Margaret Atwood's novels are illuminated from a postcolonial perspective. Finally, Leila Aboulelas Minaret deconstructs stereotypes about religion and the Mashriq (East) respectively.

Autorenportrait

Dr Ashraf Ibrahim Zidan is a lecturer of English Literature at Port Said University. I've published three books in Arabic entitled: "Postcolonial Fiction", "The Canadian Novel: Part I", and "Margaret Atwood: Part II". My unpublished PhD is entitled "Academics and novel: A Study of Iris Murdoch, David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury's Fiction" (2003).

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