Imagological Study of West in Jalal Al-e Ahmad's Visit to America

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1 Associate professor of comparative literature, Faculty of foreign languages, University of Isfahan, Isfahan

2 Department of French Language and Literature, University of Isfahan, Isfahan

Abstract

The human beings search always their image in the mirror of "Others". Among these Globe trotters, there are a lot of writers who have presented the result of their experiences in their logbooks.
The works of these travelers, who are considered as cultural ambassadors, is the point of an intersection of two worlds of "self" and "other". Hence, the study of literary image represented in itinerary works, reveal the hidden aspects of relation between "self" and "other". In his The Journey To The U.S.A (1380), Jalal Al-e Ahmad speculates as an "other" the host country and analyzes the politic, cultural and artistic considerations. In this paper, we rely on the concept of "otherness" which is a sub-theory of postcolonial studies and we sought to study the latest itinerary work of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. The paper will also seek to explore the question of how Al-e Ahmad in this itinerary work found the explanations and plenty of examples to confirm his theory on "the West" mainly presented in the Westernization (1341).

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Research in Contemporary World Literature
Volume 25, Issue 2
March 2021
Pages 476-493

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