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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Language: | English |
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Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan LInguistik, FSSK, UKM
2011
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/972/1/pp57_68.pdf |