Contemporary Arab-American literature : transnational reconfigurations of citizenship and belonging

Contemporary Arab-American literature : transnational reconfigurations of citizenship and belonging /

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 phenomen...

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Main Author: Fadda-Conrey, Carol (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : London : NYU Press, 2014
Subjects:
American literature > Arab American authors > History and criticism.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Homeland in literature.
Arab Americans in literature.
Arabs in literature.
Arab countries > In literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Transnational Arab-American Belonging
  • Reimagining the Ancestral Arab Homeland
  • To the Arab Homeland and Back: Narratives of Returns and Rearrivals
  • Translocal Connections between the US and the Arab World
  • Representing Arabs and Muslims in the US after 9/11: Gender, Religion, and Citizenship
  • Conclusion: Transnational Solidarity and the Arab Uprisings.

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