الفهرس 
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Abstract
This dissertation examines the three notions of home, exile and identity in the autobiographical works of Waguih Ghali’s Beer in the Snooker Club (1964) and Andre Aciman’s Out of Egypt: A Memoir (1994). In the case of the two writers under examination in this dissertation, their sense of ‘home’ loses much of its comfort and meaning after repeated disillusionments. Waguih Ghali’s (192(?)- 1969). exile makes him without “home” and home becomes only “imaginary or desired” as Alghamdi puts it. And of course, his sense of home in exile while in Germany, Scotland, or England, is “stymied” (4) because none of these countries is his natural home and because of issues of marginalization and/ or exclusion. Consequently, self-identity gets influenced and becomes divided.
- André Aciman (born 1951) is a different case because although he was not discriminated against or excluded in pre-1952 Egypt, he still failed to feel home due to a fake haughty and imperial attitude that disdained colonial Egypt. More importantly, he could not feel that Egypt was home simply because it was not. His Jewish heritage is one of displacement; his Jewish family have left or been forced out of so many lands and countries that his home resides in this movement between homes. Therefore, this dissertation would examine the different meanings and “configurations” of home by employing such theories as Homi Bhabha’s the unhomely and Sigmund Freud’s and Jacques Lacan’s understanding of home and the uncanny.