Abstract:The article discusses narrative and ideological conceptualizations of Arab-American authors-immigrants who wrote their autobiographies in English, the primary case studies being Edward Said's Out of Place, Ihab Hassan's Out of Egypt, and Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage. The main focus is on the language aspect -namely, Bakhtinian polyphony and hybridity -which exposes the unavoidable plurality of immigrant selfhood.Physical and psychological relocations between different cultural zones, languages, landscapes, s… Show more
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