Demythologizing the American Dream: A Rereading of Laylā Abū Zayd’s Amrīkā, al-wağh al-ākhar [America’s other face] (1991)
Amrīkā, al-wağh al-ākhar [America’s Other Face] (1991) is a travel account about Laylā Abū Zayd’s journey to the United States, the first travel-inspired narrative about America after Bidʿu Sunbulātin Khudr (1978) [Few Green Spikelets] which includes a collection of impressions about her life as a s...
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| Language: | English |
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Universitatea "Stefan cel Mare" Suceava
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines |
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| Online Access: | http://www.fig.usv.ro/socio-umane/arhiva/2018I/APSHUSJul2018_5_15.pdf |
| Summary: | Amrīkā, al-wağh al-ākhar [America’s Other Face] (1991) is a travel account about Laylā Abū Zayd’s journey to the United States, the first travel-inspired narrative about America after Bidʿu Sunbulātin Khudr (1978) [Few Green Spikelets] which includes a collection of impressions about her life as a student in England. As a renowned postcolonial feminist writer, her America-bound narrative records the seven-month stay in different American states and articulates discursive constructions of a counter narrative that attempts both to uncover the American global policy and to demystify the myths of essentializing discourses. Her travel narrative condemns American policy towards third world nations and views America as an advanced state but with an explicit imperial project engaged in practices of re-colonization. Adopting a counter hegemonic stance, Abū Zayd seems to be turning on different occasions into an oppositional force that reconstructs the long suffered invisibility of America’s others. |
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| ISSN: | 2069-4008 2069-4016 |