LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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Images of the Colonizer and the Colonized in Naguib Mahfouz’s The Cairo Trilogy

Ali Saleh Ali Al-Hossini, Research Scholar

Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian novelist, short story writer, playwright, autobiographer, screenwriter, and journalist, is the first Arabic-language author, the only Arab ever and the second African writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. He was born on December 11, 1911, the youngest of seven children in a middle-class Muslim family, in Gamaliya, in the medieval section of Old Cairo, a familiar setting in most of his fiction. He passed away on August 30, 2006 at the age of ninety-five. He grew up in a nation struggling for independence from western colonialism. As a little child, Mahfouz was surrounded by an intensification of political strife during the 1919 Egyptian Revolution and subsequent nationalist protests against British rule that had a strong effect on Mahfouz. Through the window of his room, he used to see English soldiers firing at the demonstrators, men, and women. “You could say,” he later noted, “that the one thing which most shook the security of my childhood was the 1919 revolution.” Those days were the days that the author credibly first came to experience the meaning of nationalist feeling. On that event of that period Mahfouz says:

From a small room on the roof [of our house] I used to see the demonstrations of the 1919 revolution. I saw women take part in the demonstrations on donkey-drown carts…. I often saw English soldiers firing at the demonstrations…. My mother used to pull me back from the window, but I wanted to see everything.”

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Ali Saleh Ali Al-Hossini, M.A., Ph. D. Research Scholar
Department of P.G.Studies & Research in English
Kuvempu University
Jnana Sahyadri
Shankaraghatta-577 451
Shimga,Karnataka
India
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