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العنوان
Alienation Representation in selected Arab-American Novels: A Comparative Study :
المؤلف
Farghaly، Ebtesam Adel Ahmad .
هيئة الاعداد
باحث / ebtesam adel ahmed farghaly
مشرف / Nabila Ali Marzouq
مشرف / Arafa Sayed Ismail
مشرف / Alyaa Mostafa Saad
الموضوع
Social alienation. Expatriates.
تاريخ النشر
2023.
عدد الصفحات
149p. :
اللغة
الإنجليزية
الدرجة
ماجستير
التخصص
اللغة واللسانيات
الناشر
تاريخ الإجازة
14/11/2023
مكان الإجازة
جامعة الوادى الجديد - كلية الآداب - اللغة الإنجليزية وآدابها
الفهرس
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Abstract

The present study tries to show how the theme of alienation is depicted in Susan Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly (2007) and Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home (2008). In his article “On the Meaning of Alienation”, Melvin Seeman classified six meanings or aspects of alienation: powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, cultural estrangement, social isolation and self-estrangement. The purpose of this study is to apply four dimensions of Seeman’s theory of alienation, its manifestations, reasons and its serious consequences to the novels under discussion. Also, it will make a comparison between the two different generations of parents and daughters in both novels in terms of their feeling of alienation; consequently, their sense of home and belonging towards the original home and the host home.
In the light of what was mentioned above, the study is divided into four chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter provides a historical background of Arabs’ immigration to America and the emergence of Arab-American literature and its subsequent stages. In addition, it sheds light on alienation, its basic principles, development and leading figures. Chapter two shows cultural estrangement and social isolation as main dimensions of alienation through the lives of four immigrant Palestinian mothers and their American-born daughters. Chapter three presents the concepts of powerlessness and meaninglessness in addition to social isolation that Waheed and his daughter, Nidali, have been subjected to. Also, the two preceding chapters examine Darraj and Jarrar’s lives and literary careers. Chapter four provides a comparison between the different perceptions of home for both the parents and the daughters in both novels in light of their feelings of alienation.