附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-142) and index.
Ch. 1. The Ancient Near East in Classical Rhetoric -- Plato and the Egyptian Myth of Writing -- Solon's Egyptian Story -- Roman Rhetoric and the Controversy over Asianism -- Ch. 2. From Greek into Arabic -- The Rhetoric in the Commentary Tradition of Averroes -- Ch. 3. Imperial Grammars: The Rhetoric of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Discourse -- Sir William Jones's A Grammar of the Persian Language -- Nathaniel Halhed's A Grammar of the Bengal Language -- Duncan Forbes's A Grammar of the Hindustani Language -- Ch. 4. The Colonial Subject Speaks Back: Chinua Achebe's Critique of Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- The Colonial Encounter in Heart of Darkness -- Chinua Achebe's Critique of Heart of Darkness -- Arrow of God: An African Counter-Narrative -- Ch. 5. Writing in Exile: Constructing Audiences and Identities in Foreign Lands -- Manoucher Parvin's Cry for My Revolution, Iran -- Hala Deeb Jabbour's A Woman of Nazareth -- Taghi Modarressi's The Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette -- Marwan Hassan's The Confusion of Stones.
