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Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature

Wail S. Hassan

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199792061

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199792061.001.0001

Queering Orientalism

Chapter:
(p. 199 ) 9 Queering Orientalism
Source:
Immigrant Narratives
Author(s):

Waïl S Hassan

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199792061.003.0009

Ramzi Salti relates homophobia and gender discrimination to the critique of colonialism, while Rabih Alameddine focuses on the predicament of AIDS victims and satirizes the sources of American Orientalism, the Bible and the Arabian Nights.

Keywords:   Queer fiction, AIDS, Orientalism, religion

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