dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | You, M.M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Isik, D. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-03T17:01:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-03T17:01:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/33880 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract
Although Edward Said’s theorization of Orientalism has been widely applied to literary works over the last four decades, it should also be considered how it has been re-theorized and renewed as a result of more contemporary literature. In reaction to Said’s term, scholar Lisa Lau has coined the concept of “Re-Orientalism,” which means that diasporic authors are representing the people from the Orient in the West while they are Oriental themselves, though at the same time they are non-Oriental, or Occidental, because of their current residence. In this thesis, I apply Lau’s theory of Re-Orientalism to one of the most successful diasporic memoirs in 21st century American literature: Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran. I conclude that Nafisi’s work has distorted the representation of the Other in the West and that it reinforces Western stereotypes. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 2781769 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.title | Reading Nafisi Reading Lolita: Re-Orientalism in 21st century American Literature | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | Orientalism, Re-Orientalism, Diaspora, Arab-American, Iranian-American, Middle East, Islam, Islamophobia | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Literatuur vandaag | |