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Arab voices in diaspora, critical perspectives on anglophone Arab literature, edited by Layla Al Maleh

Label
Arab voices in diaspora, critical perspectives on anglophone Arab literature, edited by Layla Al Maleh
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Arab voices in diaspora
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Layla Al Maleh
Series statement
Cross/cultures: readings in the post/colonial literatures in English, 115
Sub title
critical perspectives on anglophone Arab literature
Table Of Contents
Anglophone Arab literature : an overview / Layla Al Maleh -- Gibran and Orientalism / Wail S. Hassan -- Strategic genius, disidentification, and the burden of the Prophet in Arab-American poetry / Richard E. Hishmeh -- The dialectic of the nature/man/God trilogy of acceptance and tolerance in the works of Amine F. Rihani / Boulos Sarru -- The last migration : the first contemporary example of Lebanese diasporic literature / Syrine Hout -- Transnational diaspora and the search for home in Rabih Alameddine's I, the divine : a novel in first chapters / Carol Fadda-Conrey -- The dynamics of intercultural dislocation : hybridity in Rabih Alameddine's I, the divine / Cristina Garrigos -- The semiosis of food in Diana Abu Jaber's Crescent / Brinda J. Mehta -- How to be a successful double agent : (dis)placement as strategy in Fadia Faqir's Pillars of salt / Diya M. Abdo -- Women in exile : the "unhomely" in Fadia Faqir's Pillars of salt / Fadia Suyoufie & Lamia Hammad -- Bodies across : Ahdaf Soueif, Fadia Faqir, Diana Abu Jaber / Marta Cariello -- Searching for room to move : producing and negotiating space in Leila Aboulela's Minaret / Marta Cariello -- From harem to Harvard : cross-cultural memoir in Leila Ahmed's A border passage / Geoffrey P. Nash -- (Trans)planting cedars : seeking identity, nationality, and culture in the Lebanese diaspora / Victoria M. Abboud -- Tomorrow they write their story : Chaldeans in America and the transforming narrative of identities / Yasmeen Hanoosh -- From romantic mystics to hyphenated ethnics : Arab-American writers negotiating/shifting identity / Layla Al Maleh -- Making it survive here and "dreams of return" : community and identity in the poetry of Mohja Kahf / Samaa Abdurraqib -- Meditations on memory and belonging : Nada Awar Jarrar's Somewhere, home / Dawn Mirapuri
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