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Contemporary Arab American Literature
Author | : Carol Fadda-Conrey |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-05-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781479826926 |
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The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres. Yet, increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome phenomenon. Spanning the 1990s to the present, Carol Fadda-Conrey takes in the sweep of literary and cultural texts by Arab-American writers in order to understand the ways in which their depictions of Arab homelands, whether actual or imagined, play a crucial role in shaping cultural articulations of US citizenship and belonging. By asserting themselves within a US framework while maintaining connections to their homelands, Arab-Americans contest the blanket representations of themselves as dictated by the US nation-state. Deploying a multidisciplinary framework at the intersection of Middle-Eastern studies, US ethnic studies, and diaspora studies, Fadda-Conrey argues for a transnational discourse that overturns the often rigid affiliations embedded in ethnic labels. Tracing the shifts in transnational perspectives, from the founders of Arab-American literature, like Gibran Kahlil Gibran and Ameen Rihani, to modern writers such as Naomi Shihab Nye, Joseph Geha, Randa Jarrar, and Suheir Hammad, Fadda-Conrey finds that contemporary Arab-American writers depict strong yet complex attachments to the US landscape. She explores how the idea of home is negotiated between immigrant parents and subsequent generations, alongside analyses of texts that work toward fostering more nuanced understandings of Arab and Muslim identities in the wake of post-9/11 anti-Arab sentiments.
Dinarzad s Children
Author | : Pauline Kaldas,Khaled Mattawa |
Publsiher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1557289123 |
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The first edition of Dinarzad’s Children was a groundbreaking and popular anthology that brought to light the growing body of short fiction being written by Arab Americans. This expanded edition includes sixteen new stories —thirty in all—and new voices and is now organized into sections that invite readers to enter the stories from a variety of directions. Here are stories that reveal the initial adjustments of immigrants, the challenges of forming relationships, the political nuances of being Arab American, the vision directed towards homeland, and the ongoing search for balance and identity. The contributors are D. H. Melhem, Mohja Khaf, Rabih Alameddine, Rawi Hage, Laila Halaby, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Alia Yunis, Diana Abu Jaber, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Samia Serageldin, Alia Yunis, Joseph Geha, May Monsoor Munn, Frances Khirallah Nobel, Nabeel Abraham, Yussef El Guindi, Hedy Habra, Randa Jarrar, Zahie El Kouri, Amal Masri, Sahar Mustafah, Evelyn Shakir, David Williams, Pauline Kaldas, and Khaled Mattawa.
Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel
Author | : Mazen Naous |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0814214290 |
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Redefines dominant perceptions of Arab Americans via an aesthetic analysis of Arab American novels, launching transcultural possibilities by initiating visibility through poetics.
Arabian Jazz
Author | : Diana Abu-Jaber |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393324222 |
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Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York.
Contemporary Arab American Women Writers Hyphenated Identities and Border Crossings
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781621969570 |
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Inclined to Speak
Author | : Hayan Charara |
Publsiher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008-03-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781557288677 |
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Presents a collection of poems by such Arab American authors as Samuel Hazo, Lawrence Joseph, Khaled Mattawa, and Naomi Shihab Nye.
Immigrant Narratives
Author | : Wail S. Hassan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780199354979 |
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Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, Immigrant Narratives investigates how key Arab American and Arab British writers have described their immigrant experiences, and in so doing acted as mediators and interpreters between cultures, and how they have forged new identities in their adopted countries.
Modern Arab American Fiction
Author | : Steven Salaita |
Publsiher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2011-04-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780815651048 |
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Within the spectrum of American literary traditions, Arab American literature is relatively new. Writing produced by Americans of Arab origin is mainly a product of the twentieth century and only started to flourish in the past thirty years. While this young but thriving literature varies widely in content and style, it emerges from a common community and within a specific historical, political, and cultural context. In Modern Arab American Fiction, Salaita maps out the landscape of this genre as he details rather than defines the last century of Arab American fiction. Exploring the works of such best-selling authors as Rabih Alameddine, Mohja Kahf, Laila Halaby, Diana Abu-Jaber, Alicia Erian, and Randa Jarrar, Salaita highlights the development of each author’s writing and how each has influenced Arab American fiction. He examines common themes including the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Lebanese Civil War of 1975–90, the representation and practice of Islam in the United States, social issues such as gender and national identity in Arab cultures, and the various identities that come with being Arab American. Combining the accessibility of a primer with in-depth critical analysis, Modern Arab American Fiction is suitable for a broad audience, those unfamiliar with the subject area, as well as scholars of the literature.