The Arab writer in English
Subtitle: Arab themes in a metropolitan language, 1908-1958
By: Geoffrey Nash ; foreword by Miles L. Bradbury.
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Portland, Ore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Civilization, Arab -- Western influences.; Discourse analysis -- Political aspects.; English language -- Discourse analysis.; Language and languages -- Political aspects.; Discourse analysis, Literary.; Arabs -- Cultural assimilation.; Arabs -- Ethnic identity.
Description: This book looks at the English writings of four twentieth-century Anglo-Arab and Arab American writers: Ameen Rihani, Khalil Jibran, George Antonius and Edward Atiyah. The Introduction investigates: Why should an Arab writer write in English? How do these writers negotiate encoding Arab meanings within an alien discourse? How is Anglo-Arab discourse political, and what are its politics? Does Anglo-Arab writing belong to the category of post-colonial literature?

These issues are then explored at greater length in the succeeding chapters. While each writer is assigned a separate chapter, cross-referencing creates a sustained "dialogue" between two or more writers in a given chapter.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-171) and index.