Subjectivities of exclusion in a Kuwaiti novel: A postcolonial, decolonial and Foucauldian analysis

After winning the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2013, the controversial postcolonial Arabic novel Saq al-bambu (2012) by the Kuwaiti author Saud Alsanousi was translated into many languages. This dissertation offers a social and literary critique of the East Asian and Arab Gulf societies and subjectivities of Alsanousi’s marginalised characters, as these are imagined and portrayed in the English edition by Jonathan Wright, The Bamboo Stalk (2015).

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University of the Sunshine Coast
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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.25907/00943
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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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Subjectivities of exclusion in a Kuwaiti novel: A postcolonial, decolonial and Foucauldian analysis

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Subjectivities of exclusion in a Kuwaiti novel: A postcolonial, decolonial and Foucauldian analysis

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After winning the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2013, the controversial postcolonial Arabic novel Saq al-bambu (2012) by the Kuwaiti author Saud Alsanousi was translated into many languages. This dissertation offers a social and literary critique of the East Asian and Arab Gulf societies and subjectivities of Alsanousi’s marginalised characters, as these are imagined and portrayed in the English edition by Jonathan Wright, The Bamboo Stalk (2015).

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