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1. www.npr.org › 2013/04/29 › 179829145Behind The Curtain Of 'Disgraced' - NPR

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   Apr 29, 2013 · A play that tackles Islamophobia and questions of Muslim-American identity recently won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play is Disgraced, by first-time playwright Ayad Akhtar.

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   The narrator's name in the novel is also Ayad Akhtar, and the book reads like memoir. Akhtar says he had to "pilfer" from his own life to write a novel that had the "addictive thrill" of...

3. www.litcharts.com › lit › disgracedDisgraced by Ayad Akhtar Plot Summary - LitCharts

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   While they talk, Isaac makes several moves to touch Emily, and they allude to having had sex on a recent trip they took to London. Isaac urges Emily to leave Amir; he sees him as the slave in Emily’s portrait, an outsider who’s trying to have “his master’s wife.”.

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   Need help on characters in Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced? Check out our detailed character descriptions. From the creators of SparkNotes.

5. www.supersummary.com › disgraced › summaryDisgraced Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary

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   Disgraced won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2013, opened on the West End in 2014, and made its Broadway premiere in 2015. Like the main character, Amir Akhtar is the son of Pakistani-American immigrants and was born in the United States.

6. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2020/09/21An American Writer for an Age of Division - The New Yorker

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   Sep 14, 2020 · The novel, which turns on Akhtar’s sense of alienation as a Muslim man in the United States after September 11th, leans into provocation: we see the narrator fucking a white woman in an...

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   Who narrator is Ayad Akhtar?

   • Bo Hamby and Reena Advani produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web. The narrator's name in the novel is also Ayad Akhtar, and the book reads like memoir. Akhtar says he had to "pilfer" from his own life to write a novel that had the "addictive thrill" of reality TV.

   It's Real, It's Fiction, It's A Paradox: Ayad Akhtar On His ... - NPR

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   Who is Ayad Akhtar?

   • A play that tackles Islamophobia and questions of Muslim-American identity recently won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play is Disgraced, by first-time playwright Ayad Akhtar. He talks with guest host Celeste Headlee about his play and the significance of the award. CELESTE HEADLEE, HOST: This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee.

   Behind The Curtain Of 'Disgraced' - NPR

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   Why did Akhtar write disgraced?

   • Akhtar was thinking of “Othello” when he wrote “Disgraced,” but the play also owes a debt to the American literature of racial passing, in which characters who have managed to escape their origins fear that some unwelcome revelation will cast them out of the white world they have given everything to enter.

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   Who is Amir Akhtar?

   • Like the main character, Amir Akhtar is the son of Pakistani-American immigrants and was born in the United States. His work addresses the experience of being Muslim in America and the way Islamophobia has become integrated into American culture since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.

   Disgraced Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary

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   Did Ayad Akhtar win a Pulitzer Prize for disgraced?

   • Ayad Akhtar won a Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, his play about a conflicted American Muslim man living in New York after Sept. 11. If you find yourself a little confused by Ayad Akhtar's latest novel, Homeland Elegies, that's by design.

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   Is Akhtar a true story?

   • The novel is an autofiction, a merging of autobiographical memoir and fictional narrative, that places Akhtar as both narrator and protagonist—walking readers through the trials and tribulations of a Pakistani-American Muslim as he attempts to define his own identity in American culture.

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   Plot Summary. Homeland Elegies begins with an overture—a term normally associated with a musical introduction to a piece of music. The overture is dedicated “To America” and follows narrator Ayad Akhtar as he recalls a particularly memorable college professor.