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Author:
Abdelrazek, Amal Talaat
Title:
Contemporary Arab American women writers : hyphenated identities and border crossings / Amal Talaat Abdelrazek.
Publisher:
Cambria Press,
Copyright Date:
c2007
Description:
xviii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Arab Americans in literature
Racism in literature
Marginality, Social, in literature
Exiles in literature
Arab Americans--Ethnic identity.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.
Feminism in literature
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-232) and index.
Contents:
In search of identity-through the history, politics, and emotions of becoming "Arab" : Leila Ahmed's A border passage : from Cairo to America, a woman's journey -- "Swimmers in dangerous waters/defiers of shark" : negotiation and resistance in Mohja Kahf's Emails from scheherazad -- In-between women and narratives of displacement in West of the Jordan by Laila Halaby -- "Elsewhere-within-here/-there" : exiles and the identity of home/s in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent.
ISBN:
1934043710
9781934043714
OCLC:
(OCoLC)144570814
LCCN:
2007023021
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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