الشخصيات التراثية العربية في أدب اليافعين باللغة الإنجليزية بين التقريب و التغريب : قراءة في مجربة إميلي سيلوف (الجاحظ و أبو نواس)‎

Abstract EN

This study examines the employment of Arab heritage characters in the literature of young adults published in the English language.

It analyses the book (Popeye and Curly:120 Days in Medieval Baghdad) by Emily Selove, to assess the impact of her reliance on the domestication strategy, and her choices of mediums through which she published her work, and their roles in presenting the writer’s perceptions and representation of the Arab culture and the Abbasid civilization.

The study describes and analyses both the texts and of comics strips, employing mediological and cultural analysis methods, in addition to the historical investigation of the contents, which the writer refers to in her texts or drawings.

The study found that the researcher’s reliance on the domestication strategy, her usage of more than one medium, her interpretations of some ancient social phenomena through contemporary ideologies, her choices of topics that she wrote about, and the sources she relied on have caused several problematic issues, including the emergence of a methodological defects such as interpreting poets' imaginations and the writers' metaphors as historical facts, in addition to the writer representation of distorted pictures of the Abbasid era, its characters, and the achievements of its civilization.