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Author:

Fadda-Conrey, Carol, author.

Title:

Contemporary Arab-American literature : transnational reconfigurations of citizenship and belonging / Carol Fadda-Conrey.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--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.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
American literature--Arab American authors.
Arab Americans in literature.
Arabs in literature.
Homeland in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Literature.
Arab countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.

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.

ISBN:

1479804312 (pb)
9781479804313 (pb)
1479826928 (hardback)
9781479826926 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)867769921

LCCN:

2013049739

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)