S/Textual encounters: Alienation, resistance, and persistence in postcolonial narratives
Abstract
If the novel rose with the eighteenth-century European petite bourgeoisie, how did it evolve to become the vehicle of resistance for the twentieth-century Arab diaspora? Why are women the perpetrators of female circumcision? Is the historical coincidence of decolonization and deconstruction merely a coincidence? ("Is the 'post' in postmodernism the 'post' in postcolonialism?") And what linguistic dynamics transform the freedom fighter into a terrorist? My study looks at these, and other preposterous cultural phenomena of the contemporary world which, having no option but to rise above the shattered binaries of East and West, finds itself wallowing in the morass of postmodernism, poststructuralism, and a rapidly growing body of petits recits, the postcolonial narrative.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Hughes, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Comparative literature
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