Atdtda27: Noted troublemakers, 757-758

[Michael Bailey]

This passage, this personage, seems to be working on or playing
with the idea of colonialism via the received accent...

a) has anybody translated the name? Fuad seems to mean "heart"
or "mind" in Arabic; al is a particle, "the", right?
computer locked up looking up "mar" in an Arabic-English dictionary on
Google Books...
brain locked up trying things like "arabic stem mar" in search engine....
anyway, "The (something)-Heart" or "The (something)-Mind"

b) ya know how oftentimes Indian or West-Indian people of color have these
beautiful British accents, due to colonialistic education?
Mar-Fuad's accent may be indicative of a similar trend,
made more poignant by adopting
the accent of British bureacratic imperialism to say
to them "get out"...



On 5/6/08, Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:
> A bizarre interlude featuring the tweed-clad Al Mar-Fuad, whose presence is
>  anachronistic, imposing American cultural imperialism onto the European
>  colonial struggle that is nominally the context. In response to Halfcourt's
>  "we declare ourselves at your service, sir", AM-F points out that he "must
>  surrender the city to the Doosra", ie he answers a meaningless pleasantry
>  with an impossible political demand. Evidently, meaning is lost in
>  translation as they perform diplomacy, just as AM-F's assumption of the
>  persona of a film character posing as an English country gent is itself, in
>  context, inappropriate. Furthermore, has he assumed a "difficulty with the
>  prevocal r typical of the British upper class" to add verisimilitude to his
>  performance? Or has the latter perhaps been chosen to accompany his way of
>  speaking?
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>  Prokladka has, it seems, been "eavesdropping" (758), which reminds us that,
>  previously, the narrative has emphasised that which is overheard: hence the
>  incongruity of AM-F's presence is succeeded by the exposure of
>  Prokladka-as-eavesdropper.
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