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

The thesis fills a gap in ethnic literature in the U.S. for the six plays examine the concept of the Master Race from new approaches, as to the best of the present writer's knowledge, they have not been tackled in the light of the crime ideology of the Master Race. It has been well-proved that the African American plays adopt the crime ideology of the Master Race to affirm the superiority of the African American race. In addition to this, the Native American plays deconstruct the Native American stereotype and explore their unique philosophy of peace, Wakan Taka, as a counter philosophy to the crime ideology of the white Master Race. Finally, it argues that the Arab American plays unveil the eternal rivalry between Islam as a religious and moral Master Race ideology versus the U.S. political and economic Master Race ideology as well as the fact that the "war on terror" is, in actuality, the "war on Islam" since Islam encapsulates the ideology that threatens the ideology of the American age

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