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Cultural Identity as an Epistemic Construct: Ali’s The Domestic Crusaders and Akhtar’s The Who & the What

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2024

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اللغة الإنجليزية وآدابها

Abstract

This research argues that in the two plays, The Domestic Crusaders (2004) by Wajahat Ali and The Who & the What (2014) by Ayad Akhtar, cultural identity is dramatized through the epistemic spatiotemporal values which the colonial subalterns have experienced. As such, the essentialist and postmodernist views about identity, which cannot but see identity as either predetermined or purely arbitrary, are demoted in favor of the experiential foundations of identity. These experiential foundations provide knowledge which influences the construction and the reshaping of identity in an ongoing process. Based on this vision, the identity of the principal Muslim American women characters in the plays under study is dramatized to be constructed epistemically; that is, in relation to the epistemic contexts in which they have grown. This dramatization aims to expose both the fallibility and inadequacy of the pre and post-9/11 anti-Muslim epistemic violence. The two plays feature the Muslim women protagonists as exhibiting varying degrees of cultural and intellectual orientation, which is attributed to the differing epistemic experiences of the concerned protagonists. The argument draws on Satya P. Mohanty's 1993 lead article “The Epistemic Status of Cultural Identity . . .," in which the metaphysics of post-positivist realism is applied to the realm of cultural identity formation, providing a mediated approach to experience and knowledge.

DOI

10.21608/sjam.2023.202406.1945

Keywords

cultural identity, experience-mediated knowledge, The Who & the What, The Domestic Crusaders

Authors

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Haris A. Noureiddin

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Noureiddin

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Dept. of English, Faculty of Languages, Aswan University

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samyabedalla@yahoo.com

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34

Article Issue

134.1

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38718

Issue Date

2023-07-01

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2023-03-26

Publish Date

2023-07-01

Page Start

961

Page End

987

Print ISSN

2090-2956

Online ISSN

2735-329X

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SJAM_Volume 34_Issue 134.1_Pages 961-987.pdf

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مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية

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Cultural Identity as an Epistemic Construct: Ali’s The Domestic Crusaders and Akhtar’s The Who & the What

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26 Dec 2024