Al-Dabbagh (English literature, United Arab Emirates U.) collects ten of his essays from the past twenty years dealing broadly with the topics of literary orientalism (building on the work of
Edward Said), literary postcoloniality, and the effects of contemporary globalism and universalism on literature and language. Specific topics include orientalism and literary translation; the
Oriental roots of the picaresque; Joseph Conrad and postcolonial discourse; and colonialism, postcolonialism, and anti-colonialism and the "false rhetoric of freedom." Annotation 穢2010 Book
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