From Anglo-French to Early American Orientalism: Maupassant’s Au Soleil (1884), Edith Maude Hull’s The Sheik (1919), and Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Offshore Pirate” (1920).
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2015
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university Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
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This dissertation studies the perception and the shift of Orientalism from Britain and France to
America through Guy de Maupassant’s Au Soleil (1884), Edith Maude Hull’s The Sheik
(1919), and Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Offshore Pirate” (1920). To achieve our goal, we
have relied on Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978). We have first studied the French then the
British Orientalizing of Algeria in the two texts, Au Soleil, and The Sheik. Second, we have
explored the shift of the mis/representation of the Orientals from European literature to be
applied on the Black, Arab, and Italian minorities in the American fiction through “The
Offshore Pirate.” After the analysis of Maupassant’s, Hull’s, and Fitzgerald’s texts, we have
reached the conclusion that the three authors share the same Orientalist representation of the
gendered, racial, and ethnic groups. We have also concluded that each one of these authors
supports the Orientalist discourse and promotes the supposed superiority of his nation.
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69p.;30cm.(+cd)
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Cultural and Media Studies