L’occidentalisme dans Amrikanli de Sonallah Ibrahim

Abstract

This article focuses on Westernism in Amrikanli, an autumn in San Francisco, published in Cairo in 2003, and translated into French in 2005. The writer Sonallah Ibrahim shows how displacement can lead to a kind of dislocation in language and being. The confrontation with the American space leads the hero/narrator, an Egyptian professor of History invited to a Californian university, to criticize the representations of self and of other people, and to examine the production of knowledge in the West and in the Arab field.

Keywords

• Arabic literature (20th and 21st centuries)
• autofiction
• Egypt
• West
• identity
• decentralisation