Bilingual Creativity and Arab Contact Literature

This book adopts an integrated approach to the study of contact literature through collaboration between theories of World Englishes and translation studies. The author proposes an interactive framework that integrates linguistic and cultural perspectives, through the analysis of selected Anglo-Arab and Arab-American contact literary texts: Samia Serageldine’s  The Cairo House  (2000), Leila Ahmed’s  A Border Passage  (1999), Leila Aboulela’s  The Translator  (1999)