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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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Description
xviii, 235 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • American literature > 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
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