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The Discourse of Hegemony in Naguib Mahfouz’s Children of the Neighborhood: A Conceptual and Analytical Study

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The study aims to analyse the issue of language politics and postcolonial identity in Salman Rushdie's Shame through the framework of postcolonial literary theories. The research considers the author's use of the English language as a tool of overcoming the colonizer's linguistic hegemony and creation of his unique pos...

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