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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Leila Sebbar"”.
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The postexotic Arab: Orientalist dystopias in contemporary postcolonial fiction
… attractive otherness. Reading the texts of Leila Sebbar's Sherazade (1982), Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees (1996), Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh (1996), and Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent (2003) and The Language of Baklava (2005), I argue that contemporary postcolonial fiction …
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Battle of the Bains: Tactical Bathing in Two Expository Texts, One Film and a Novella
In numerous articles and texts published within the arenas of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, much has been written on the trope of the shared bath-and even more specifically the hammam-as a space of orientalism. Although researchers such as Magreban sociologist Fatima Mernissi, …