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  title info:
    title: Representation of asian culture in the novels of Adib Khan
    sub title: a postcolonial study
  name:
    name part: Karim, M M Shariful
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: International Islamic University Malaysia
    name part: Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences
  genre: Theses, IIUM local
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    date issued: 2019
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: x, 274 leaves : illustrations ; 30cm.
  abstract: The aim of this thesis is to provide a postcolonial study of the representation of Asian culture in the novels of distinguished Asian-Australian writer, Adib Khan: Seasonal Adjustments (1994), Solitude of Illusions (1996), The Storyteller (2000), Homecoming (2003) and Spiral Road (2007). Khan's novels display a rich array of cultural images of South and Southeast Asia. However, the author's first-hand contact with Australian society also facilitates the research to examine the metropolitan culture. The novels document recurrent cultural images, as well as the beliefs and views of people living in certain Asian countries with a colonial past. The writer's presentation of postcolonial cultural phenomenon in these societies is examined with a view to identifying his contribution to the existing body of postcolonial literature. Being a diasporic writer, Khan attempts to look into his own home culture by positioning himself at the 'contact zone' between the two disparate cultures. Pertaining to the research objectives, the thesis investigates the depiction of Asian images, as well as issues relating to postcolonialism and diaspora. In this regard, the home culture is discussed in juxtaposition with the dominant host culture. As the study focuses primarily on cultural images depicted in the novels, Khan's factional narratives provide the fulcrum for this research. Considering the postcolonial inheritance of the author, postcolonial theory is used to examine the diaspora identity, 'othering', hybridity and postcolonial discourses. Moreover, representational theory is used for its theoretical framework. The research finds that Asian societies, irrespective of their different nationalities, hold almost similar cultural images in terms of patriarchy, poverty, superstitions, women's condition and family relationships. Despite enjoying the status of independent nation states, Asian societies are still under the control of invisible colonial ideologies.
  note: by M M Shariful Karim
  note: Thesis (Ph.D)--International Islamic University Malaysia, 2019.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-274).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-my---
  identifier: http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/9727
  record info:
    record content source: UIAM
    record creation date: 190314
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng