The use of historical allusion in recent American and Arab fiction

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 traditi...

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Main Authors: Riyad Manqoush, Noraini Md. Yusof, Ruzy Suliza Hashim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan LInguistik, FSSK, UKM 2011
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/972/1/pp57_68.pdf