The thousand and one tries: Storytelling as an art of failure in Rabih Alameddine’s Fiction

The paper discusses experimental fiction of Rabih Alameddine, an American writer of Lebanese origin, whose literary pursuits subvert Orientalist discourse based on the East/West dichotomy by focusing on the commonalities of the two. The recurring motif of searching for one’s identity (while being tr...

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Main Author: Tabačková Zuzana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-09-01
Series:Journal of Language and Cultural Education
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0025