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Contemporary Arab American women writers : hyphenated identities and border crossings
- Title
- Contemporary Arab American women writers : hyphenated identities and border crossings / Amal Talaat Abdelrazek.
- Author
- Abdelrazek, Amal Talaat.
- Publication
- Youngstown, N.Y. : Cambria Press, [2007], ©2007.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS153.A73 A36 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 235 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Feminism in literature
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) > United States
- Exiles in literature
- Marginality, Social, in literature
- Racism in literature
- Arab Americans in literature
- American literature > Arab American authors > History and criticism
- Arab Americans > Ethnic identity
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- 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
- 9781934043714 (alk. paper)
- 1934043710 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007023021
- 40015185661
- OCLC
- ocn144570814
- 144570814
- SCSB-5394527
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries