TY - BOOK AU - Jehan Abdelhamid Jahin AU - Mona Ahmed Elhalawany , TI - The empire writes from within and without : : Shades of emancipating the mind in selected plays by Howard Brenton and Tariq Ali / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Jehan Abdelhamid Jahin , KW - Howard Brenton KW - Ihab Hassan KW - Tariq Ali N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English; Issued also as CD N2 - Revealing hegemonic forms in discourse have become a major concern in literary production and scholarship particularly since the end of the second world war. This attempt has taken several forms: Deconstruction, post - colonialism, and postmodernism. This thesis aims to challenge traditional critical output on Howard Brenton{u2019}s and Tariq Ali's work as merely political (in accord with a deconstructive post - colonial approach) by attempting to decode the complexity of some of their plays against postmodern concepts proposed by Ihab Hassan UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -