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Arab Americans in literature --- Arab Americans in motion pictures

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""As a writer starting out in the early 1990s," Khaled Mattawa begins "Meet the Poet-Stranger," the essay that opens this collection, "I wanted the company of fellow immigrants who worked in the language of their adopted homelands, chiseling away at their exile and making a home for themselves in poetry." Throughout his career, Mattawa's thoughtful and politically astute considerations of what it means to create as a "poet-stranger," particularly for those of Middle Eastern heritage, have been steeped in his personal experience as a Libyan-American writer. The essays included in this volume cover Mattawa's approach toward translating contemporary and classical Arabic poetry, the personal and international politics of poetry, and the difficulty of representing one's own family history in one's own writing. The concluding piece, "Poems and Days (A Reader's Memoir)," presents his deep engagement with the work of other poets during his formative years as a writer"--

American poetry --- American literature --- English literature --- Arab Americans in literature. --- Arabs in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arab American authors --- Arab authors

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This is a profound study of how contemporary Arab American women writers who have been marginalized and silenced, especially after 9/11, are pointing out the racism, oppression, and marginalization they experience in the United States and are beginning to uncover the particularities of their own ethnic histories. The book focuses mainly on four works by contemporary Arab American women writers: A Border Passage (1999) by Leila Ahmed, Emails from Scheherazad by Mohja Khaf, West of the Jordan (2003) by Laila Halaby, and Crescent (2003) by Diana Abu-Jaber, examining how each of these works uniquely tackles the idea of having a hyphenated identity--an identity that has been complicated by living in a hostile environment and living in a borderzone. In this book, the author articulately examines how Leila Ahmed, Mohja Khaf, Laila Halaby, and Diana Abu Jaber explore what it means to belong to a nation as it wages war in their Arab homelands, supports the elimination of Palestine, and racializes Arab men as terrorists and Arab women as oppressed victims, while investigating the themes of exile, doubleness, "split vision," and difference. Using postcolonial and feminist literary theories, the author insightfully investigates how these Arab American women writers critique intellectual tendencies that might be understood as making concessions to Western and Orientalist fundamentalist regimes and movements that in effect abandon Arab women to their iron rule.

American literature --- Arab Americans in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- Marginality, Social, in literature. --- Exiles in literature. --- Arab Americans --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Feminism in literature. --- Littérature américaine --- Américains d'origine arabe --- Racisme --- Exil --- Marginaux --- Stéréotype (psychologie) --- Arab American authors. --- History and criticism --- Women authors. --- Ethnic identity. --- Auteurs arabes --- Histoire et critique. --- Femmes écrivains. --- Dans la littérature. --- Identité collective.

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American prose literature --- Slaves' writings, American --- Slavery --- African Americans in literature. --- Arab Americans in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Canon (Literature) --- Autobiography. --- Prose américaine --- Ecrits d'esclaves américains --- Esclavage --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Américains d'origine arabe dans la littérature --- Narration --- Chefs-d'oeuvre (Littérature) --- Autobiographie --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Arab American authors --- History --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs américains d'origine arabe --- Histoire --- Slaves --- African Americans --- African Americans in literature --- Arab Americans in literature. --- Theory, etc. --- Intellectual life. --- Historiography. --- Prose américaine --- Ecrits d'esclaves américains --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Américains d'origine arabe dans la littérature --- Chefs-d'oeuvre (Littérature) --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Auteurs américains d'origine arabe --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature américaine --- Enslaved persons' writings, American

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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.

American literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. --- Homeland in literature. --- Arab Americans in literature. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Arab American authors --- History and criticism. --- 20e siècle (2e moitié)-21e siècle (début) --- Identité collective. --- Écrivains arabes. --- Écrivains appartenant à des minorités. --- Americains d'origine arabe --- Arabes --- Litterature americaine --- Literature. --- Arabs in literature. --- Identite collective. --- Dans la litterature. --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorites --- Histoire et critique. --- Arab American authors. --- Arab countries. --- Arab countries --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East --- In literature. --- Arabic American literature (English) --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Homeland in literature --- Littérature américaine --- Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature --- Patrie dans la littérature --- Américains d'origine arabe dans la littérature --- Arabes dans la littérature --- Auteurs américains d'origine arabe --- Peuples arabes --- (peuple arabe) --- (peuple du Soudan) --- (peuple d'Afrique) --- Américaines d'origine arabe --- Artistes américains d'origine arabe --- Ethnologie --- Histoire --- Américains d'origine arabe --- Argentins d'origine arabe --- Canadiens d'origine arabe --- Caractère national arabe --- Civilisation arabe --- Humour arabe --- Italiens d'origine arabe --- Maghrébins --- Relations Juifs-Arabes --- Sarrasins --- ʿArab al-Ḥuǧayrāt (peuple arabe) --- ʿArab al-Mawāsī (peuple arabe) --- Agedat (peuple arabe) --- Artistes arabes --- Azd (peuple arabe) --- Baggara (peuple arabe) --- Banū Sulaym (peuple arabe) --- Bédouins --- Beni Hassan (peuple arabe) --- Chrétiens arabes --- Commerçants arabes --- Dawasir (peuple arabe) --- Dhubyan (peuple arabe) --- Écrivains arabes --- Étudiants arabes --- Femmes arabes --- Fuqarâ (peuple arabe) --- Halab (peuple arabe) --- Hamar (peuple du Soudan) --- Hilaliens --- Historiens arabes --- Huwaytat (peuple arabe) --- Intellectuels arabes --- Ituréens --- Journalistes arabes --- Kababish (peuple arabe) --- Kahtanites (peuple arabe) --- Kawahla (peuple arabe) --- Ma'dan (peuple arabe) --- Madianites --- Maures (peuple d'Afrique) --- Médecins arabes --- Mérazigues (peuple arabe) --- Militaires arabes --- Missirié (peuple arabe) --- Nabatéens --- Ouled Naïl (peuple arabe) --- Palestiniens --- Quraysh (peuple arabe) --- Rashaida (peuple arabe) --- Réfugiés arabes --- Said Atba (peuple arabe) --- Shaikia (peuple arabe) --- Shammar (peuple arabe) --- Shukriya (peuple arabe) --- Taghlib (peuple arabe) --- Tayy (peuple arabe) --- Thamoudéens --- Travailleurs étrangers arabes --- Voyageurs arabes