Postcolonial Recycling of the Oriental Vampire in Habiby's Saraya, the Ghoul's Daughter and Mukherjee's Jasmine

This article examines Emile Habiby's Saraya, The Ghoul's Daughter (1991) and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine (1989) as two postcolonial novels seeking to rewrite the history of Palestinian and Indian diaspora according to their respective myths of Oriental vampires. Habiby's recy...

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Main Author: Ahmed Gamal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pluto Journals 2013-01-01
Series:Arab Studies Quarterly
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/arabstudquar.35.1.0004