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| Strange and Stranger(s): Constructing Hybrid Modernity through a Reading of Latin American and Arabic Prose, 1880-1920 | |
| El Hosseiny, Alya Hany | |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 学位类型 | 博士 |
| 导师 | Halim, Hala |
| 学位授予单位 | New York University |
| 英文摘要 | This dissertation examines the theme of strangeness in Arabic and Latin American literature between 1880 and 1920. Through analytical readings of novels and other prose fiction of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, I show the salience of strangeness, alienation and estrangement as motifs in these works. In the first chapter of the dissertation, I examine earlier works of prose to provide context. In the second chapter, I focus on strangeness as manifested through sexual transgression. Finally, in the last chapter, I analyze narratives of physical estrangement, such as travel, urban alienation, and disconnect from nature. In analyzing strangeness, I show its close relationship with modernity. Indeed, alienation is a hallmark of modernity, rising from a disconnect with one’s society and physical environment. Alienation and estrangement are also metaphorical ways of addressing the relationship with the Other, especially if that Other is a colonizer or ex-colonizer. Strangeness is therefore expressive of problematics of national identity, at a time of budding decolonization and post-colonial nation-building. Finally, this dissertation shows how the early prose literature of the turn of the twentieth century, in Latin America and in the Arab world, has expressed essential anxieties of modernity, and set the course for the canonical works of the later twentieth century. |
| 英文关键词 | Nineteenth century literature Postcolonial South-south comparatism Twentieth century literature |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | United States |
| 来源学科分类 | Comparative literature; Latin American literature; Middle Eastern literature |
| URL | https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/2080401818.html?FMT=AI |
| 来源机构 | New York University |
| 资源类型 | 学位论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/251023 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | El Hosseiny, Alya Hany. Strange and Stranger(s): Constructing Hybrid Modernity through a Reading of Latin American and Arabic Prose, 1880-1920[D]. New York University,2018. |
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