Identity, nationhood and body politics: pathways into the Yemeni world of they die strangers

This article focuses on the Yemeni novel, a purely late 20th century phenomenon which emerged recently following the Yemeni revolution in 1962 and the emergence of the modern nation state in Yemen. However, this new form suffers from serious marginalization in contemporary postcolonial studies. The...

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Main Authors:	Yahya Al-Wadhaf, Noritah Omar
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2007
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1166/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1166/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1166/1/6_YahyaNoritah%25202%2520Oct%25202007.pdf

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spelling	ukm-11662016-12-14T06:29:00Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1166/ Identity, nationhood and body politics: pathways into the Yemeni world of they die strangers Yahya Al-Wadhaf, Noritah Omar, This article focuses on the Yemeni novel, a purely late 20th century phenomenon which emerged recently following the Yemeni revolution in 1962 and the emergence of the modern nation state in Yemen. However, this new form suffers from serious marginalization in contemporary postcolonial studies. The novel‟s appearance in English in 2001 serves many literary and cultural purposes. Taking the cultural particularity and marginalization of Yemen into account, the novel is both informative and imbued with meanings that participate in and contribute to the process of creating new identities of literacy practices by offering new horizons for reading multicultural literary texts such as the Arabic novel. This article evaluates the novel They Die Strangers (1972) by the Yemeni novelist Mohammed Ahmed Abdul Wali as a postcolonial narrative of emigration in which the writer argues about what is called the ideology of return. An emigrant himself, the writer discusses the impact of long-term emigration on the individual, his family and the society as a whole. The discussion, using a postcolonial perspective, covers issues related to the construction of the Yemeni identity, body politics, the Yemeni farmers‟ dream and the representation of women focusing on the body-land association. The discussion concludes with considering the novel as a parody against those who migrate leaving their women and their land behind, only to live and die as strangers. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1166/1/6_YahyaNoritah%25202%2520Oct%25202007.pdf Yahya Al-Wadhaf, and Noritah Omar, (2007) Identity, nationhood and body politics: pathways into the Yemeni world of they die strangers. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 13 . pp. 95-126. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description	This article focuses on the Yemeni novel, a purely late 20th century phenomenon which emerged recently following the Yemeni revolution in 1962 and the emergence of the modern nation state in Yemen. However, this new form suffers from serious marginalization in contemporary postcolonial studies. The novel‟s appearance in English in 2001 serves many literary and cultural purposes. Taking the cultural particularity and marginalization of Yemen into account, the novel is both informative and imbued with meanings that participate in and contribute to the process of creating new identities of literacy practices by offering new horizons for reading multicultural literary texts such as the Arabic novel. This article evaluates the novel They Die Strangers (1972) by the Yemeni novelist Mohammed Ahmed Abdul Wali as a postcolonial narrative of emigration in which the writer argues about what is called the ideology of return. An emigrant himself, the writer discusses the impact of long-term emigration on the individual, his family and the society as a whole. The discussion, using a postcolonial perspective, covers issues related to the construction of the Yemeni identity, body politics, the Yemeni farmers‟ dream and the representation of women focusing on the body-land association. The discussion concludes with considering the novel as a parody against those who migrate leaving their women and their land behind, only to live and die as strangers.
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title	Identity, nationhood and body politics: pathways into the Yemeni world of they die strangers
title_short	Identity, nationhood and body politics: pathways into the Yemeni world of they die strangers
title_full	Identity, nationhood and body politics: pathways into the Yemeni world of they die strangers
title_fullStr	Identity, nationhood and body politics: pathways into the Yemeni world of they die strangers
title_full_unstemmed	Identity, nationhood and body politics: pathways into the Yemeni world of they die strangers
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publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2007
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1166/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1166/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1166/1/6_YahyaNoritah%25202%2520Oct%25202007.pdf
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Identity, nationhood and body politics: pathways into the Yemeni world of they die strangers

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