Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English

This thesis probes into the mechanisms of diasporicism both metaphorical and otherwise in an attempt to contribute to the recently founded literary genre of {u2018}Diaspora Criticism{u2019} (2006). By approaching the different possibilities of diasporicising diasporicism, this study may shed light on the field of {u2018}Theorizing Diaspora{u2019} (2003) both as a cultural and a critical paradigm. This thesis delves also into the poetics and problematics implicated in the naming and meaning of diasporicism as the contextual, perceptual and textual scene of the theoretical discourse of dispersion. It incorporates interdisciplinary approaches to diasporicism which involve geographical and historiographical as well as psychological and anthropological studies of dispersal and deferral whereby the researcher suggests a new form of diasporicisation, namely, the {u2018}cohabitation of speculation.The dyschronotopic and postchronotopic variation on diasporic imagination and dialogic dislocations moves this study from the conceptualization to post-theorization of diasporicisation as an accultural, diacritical paradigm. In this regard, different cultural and critical theories of diasporicism as well as post-theories of dispersal gather momentum in this study like {u2018}border theory{u2019} and {u2018}travel theory{u2019}, which are conceived in this thesis as the two major pillars of transdiasporicism and post-diasporicism

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