Cultural hybridity, trauma, and memory in diasporic anglophone Lebanese fiction

Hout, Syrine

doi:10.1080/17449855.2011.569376

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“…Anglophone Arab literature was unknown and ignored until the 11 th of September 2001 attacks and the succession of raids on some cities such as London, New York, Washington, and other Western cities (Hout 2011). Then, Western and American attentions were driven to the Arabs as a real threat to their civilization.…”

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Ethnocentrism and Arab Women in Fadia Faqir’s The Cry of the Dove

Alobeytha

Alodwan

2023

IJAES

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Arab women bear the struggle of their local tradition in their countries and the tradition of the Westerns when they live between them. They are victims of gender discrimination and racism. Ethnocentrism is the inclination of people who consider their customs, civilizations, culture, skin, and colour superior, demanding others to follow and imitate them. This paper examined the influence of ethnocentrism on Arab women in Arabian and Western countries by analysing Fadia Faqir’s The Cry of the Dove (2007). The framework in this study is guided by ethnocentrism as a concept in postcolonial theory. The findings revealed that (i) due to ethnocentrism, Arab women suffer gender discrimination, violence, marginalisation, slavery, and death, (ii) Western ethnocentrism abuses and dehumanises the Arab women immigrants, and (iii) ethnocentrism creates many chronic social and political diseases in the minds of people (colonizers, colonized and decolonized people, men and women ), (iv) and some Arab women view the Western world as a unique model that should be imitated.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%