'I Could Right What Had Been Made Wrong': Laila Lalami's Appropriation of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

Awad, Yousef

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“…Lalami's novel contributes to "the burgeoning oeuvres" of ideologically-diverse contemporary Arab American writers (Awad, 2018, p. 77). Awad (2015) offers an analytical reading of Lalami's novel and compares it to Behn's Oroonoko. In his article, Awad (2015) argues that Lalami's choice to record Mustafa's account of the expedition is an attempt to move the marginalized to the center and disturb "the power structures that rendered the Moroccan man invisible" (Awad, 2015, p. 194).…”

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“…Awad (2015) offers an analytical reading of Lalami's novel and compares it to Behn's Oroonoko. In his article, Awad (2015) argues that Lalami's choice to record Mustafa's account of the expedition is an attempt to move the marginalized to the center and disturb "the power structures that rendered the Moroccan man invisible" (Awad, 2015, p. 194). Maszewski (2018) argues that the novelist makes the reader "aware of the pleasure of 'literary' freedom on a journey across various traditions, conventions, narrative patterns of discovery, with selfdiscovery at the very heart of the process of telling" (Maszewski, 2018, p. 324).…”

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Illness and the Development of Master-Slave Relations in Morrison’s A Mercy and Lalami’s The Moor’s Account

al-Sewwi

Awad

2020

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare Master-Slave relations in two historical novels by African-American novelist Toni Morrison and Arab-American novelist Laila Lalami. The study aims at examining the formation of Master-Slave relations in Morrison's A Mercy (2008) and Lalami's The Moor's Account (2014), with a particular focus on the role illness and healing play on their development. This will be done within three stages of before, during and after illnesses. Moreover, Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic theory will serve as the theoretical framework upon which Master-Slave relations will be examined within their historical and cultural contexts. Masters' illnesses in both novels represent a turning point in the course of Master-Slave relations, providing Slaves with a chance to prove to themselves and to their Masters that the two are involved in complex and multifaceted connections. However, the study shows that the way illnesses affect the development of the relation in each novel differs drastically. In The Moor's Account, illness offers an opportunity for Mustafa and his companions to add value to the services they offer to the Native American tribes they serve. In contrast, the emergence of illness in A Mercy negatively affects Lina's relationship with Rebekka as the latter loses faith in the former and substantially downgrades her efforts and labors. The results of this study reveal the importance of external factors, such as the appearance of illnesses, in defining and affecting Master-Slave relations. Hence, by reading both novels alongside each other, the study highlights sociopolitical, cultural and historical aspects in the two narratives that have not been fully explored previously.

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confidence: 99%

Illness and the Development of Master-Slave Relations in Morrison’s A Mercy and Lalami’s The Moor’s Account

al-Sewwi

Awad

2020

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A Hope Disillusioned, an Opportunity Lost? Reflections on Common Law Native Title and Ten Years of the Native Title Act

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2003

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Faith, Identity and Magical Realism in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons

Arkhagha

Awad

2021

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This article adopts a literary analytical approach to illuminate the use of magical realism in the contemporary Anglophone Arab narrative of Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons (2019). The study follows a methodology which combines two critical approaches to magical realism: first, a textual approach, and then a contextual one. Accordingly, the study uses key magical realist elements in Bird Summons to delineate the poetics of magical realism within the narrative, before determining the context in which magical realism functions in the narrative. Simultaneously, the study benefits from Christopher Warnes’s two strands of magical realism, ‘faith-based magical realism’ and ‘irreverent magical realism’ in providing a coherent basis for the use of magical realism in the text. This study aims at examining the significance of the magical realist narrative in articulating Arab British identity in Bird Summons. The analysis will interpret the role of magical realism in conveying and undermining the dominant ethnic and racial discourses which shape Arab British identities in Britain. The study’s findings demonstrate how the use of magical realism in the examined Anglophone Arab novel reinforces the fictional purposes of Aboulela as a hyphenated Arab, as it allows her to undermine dominant discourses on hyphenated Arab identities. At the same time, the use of magical realism allows Aboulela to (re)construct Arab British identities within her novel, apart from essentialist views of identity.

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'I Could Right What Had Been Made Wrong': Laila Lalami's Appropriation of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Illness and the Development of Master-Slave Relations in Morrison’s A Mercy and Lalami’s The Moor’s Account

Illness and the Development of Master-Slave Relations in Morrison’s A Mercy and Lalami’s The Moor’s Account

A Hope Disillusioned, an Opportunity Lost? Reflections on Common Law Native Title and Ten Years of the Native Title Act

Faith, Identity and Magical Realism in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons

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