2015
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2834736
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'I Could Right What Had Been Made Wrong': Laila Lalami's Appropriation of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

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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).…”
Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
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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).…”
Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…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).…”
Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%