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	The Use Of Historical Allusion In Recent American And Arab Fiction
	Manqoush, Riyad; Yusof, Noraini Md.; Hashim, Ruzy Suliza
通讯作者	Manqoush, R
来源期刊	GEMA ONLINE JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES
ISSN	1675-8021
出版年	2011
卷号	11 期号:1 页码:57-68
英文摘要	In this paper, we analyse John Updike's Terrorist (2006) and Mohammad Ismail's Desert of Death and Peace (2005) with the aim of examining the use of allusion in the depiction of 9/11 acts and the US occupation of Iraq. The comparison of the two novels, selected from two different literary traditions, enables us to explore American and Arab viewpoints of recent history. By appropriating the discussions of Gerard Genette, Michael Leddy, William Irwin, John Campbell and Allan Pasco on the use of allusion in literature, we argue that when authors allude to history in their works, they either employ allusion to affirm or oppose certain notions. In other words, there are two main strategies of allusion: affirmation and opposition. Updike alludes to history to affirm that Arab terrorists are the main enemies of the USA and also to oppose the actions of those terrorists who give themselves the right to kill civilians. In contrast, Ismail asserts that the Iraqi and American people are equally victims of super-power Jews. Therefore, he exposes an opposition to the US occupation of Iraq and the irrational reaction of the US to 9/11. Both novels implicitly utilise 9/11 and the US occupation of Iraq but each one employs these incidents according to the viewpoint and cultural background of its author. Hence, the different employment of history reveals contestations of worldviews which are symptomatic of the ideological clashes between the East and West.
英文关键词	allusion affirmation opposition 9/11 terrorism Iraq America
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	DOAJ Gold
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000210109500004
WOS类目	Language & Linguistics
WOS研究方向	Linguistics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/329632
作者单位	[Manqoush, Riyad; Yusof, Noraini Md.; Hashim, Ruzy Suliza] Univ Kebangsaan Malaysia, Fac Social Sci & Humanities, Sch Language Studies & Linguist, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Manqoush, Riyad,Yusof, Noraini Md.,Hashim, Ruzy Suliza. The Use Of Historical Allusion In Recent American And Arab Fiction[J],2011,11(1):57-68.
APA	Manqoush, Riyad,Yusof, Noraini Md.,&Hashim, Ruzy Suliza.(2011).The Use Of Historical Allusion In Recent American And Arab Fiction.GEMA ONLINE JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES,11(1),57-68.
MLA	Manqoush, Riyad,et al."The Use Of Historical Allusion In Recent American And Arab Fiction".GEMA ONLINE JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 11.1(2011):57-68.