Buch, Englisch, Band 115, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 943 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
Buch, Englisch, Band 115, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 943 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
ISBN: 978-90-420-2718-3
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Authors discussed include Elmaz Abinader, Diana Abu-Jaber, Leila Aboulela, Leila Ahmed, Rabih Alameddine, Edward Atiyah, Shaw Dallal, Ibrahim Fawal, Fadia Faqir, Khalil Gibran, Suheir Hammad, Loubna Haikal, Nada Awar Jarrar, Jad El Hage, Lawrence Joseph, Mohja Kahf, Jamal Mahjoub, Hisham Matar, Dunya Mikhail, Samia Serageldine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ameen Rihani, Mona Simpson, Ahdaf Soueif, and Cecile Yazbak.
Contributors: Victoria M. Abboud, Diya M. Abdo, Samaa Abdurraqib, Marta Cariello, Carol Fadda–Conrey, Cristina Garrigós, Lamia Hammad, Yasmeen Hanoosh, Waïl S. Hassan, Richard E. Hishmeh, Syrine Hout, Layla Al Maleh, Brinda J. Mehta, Dawn Mirapuri, Geoffrey P. Nash, Boulus Sarru, Fadia Fayez Suyoufie
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Preface
Layla Al Maleh: Anglophone Arab Literature: An Overview
Waïl S. Hassan: Gibran and Orientalism
Richard E. Hishmeh: Strategic Genius, Disidentification, and the Burden of The Prophet in Arab-American Poetry
Boulos Sarru: The Dialectic of the Nature/Man/God Trilogy of Acceptance and Tolerance in the Works of Amine F. Rihani
Syrine Hout: The Last Migration: The First Contemporary Example of Lebanese Diasporic Literature
Carol Fadda–Conrey: Transnational Diaspora and the Search for Home in Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Cristina Garrigós: The Dynamics of Intercultural Dislocation: Hybridity in Rabih Alameddine’s I, The Divine
Brinda J. Mehta: The Semiosis of Food in Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent
Diya M. Abdo: How to Be a Successful Double Agent: (Dis)placement as Strategy in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt
Fadia Suyoufie & Lamia Hammad: Women in Exile: The ‘Unhomely’ in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt
Marta Cariello: Bodies Across: Ahdaf Soueif, Fadia Faqir, Diana Abu Jaber
Marta Cariello: Searching for Room to Move: Producing and Negotiating Space in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret
Geoffrey P. Nash: From Harem to Harvard: Cross-Cultural Memoir in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage
Victoria M. Abboud: (Trans)Planting Cedars: Seeking Identity, Nationality, and Culture in the Lebanese Diaspora
Yasmeen Hanoosh: Tomorrow They Write their Story: Chaldeans in America and the Transforming Narrative of Identities
Layla Al Maleh: From Romantic Mystics to Hyphenated Ethnics: Arab-American Writers Negotiating/Shifting Identity
Samaa Abdurraqib: Making It Survive Here and “Dreams of Return”: Community and Identity in the Poetry of Mohja Kahf
Dawn Mirapuri: Meditations on Memory and Belonging: Nada Awar Jarrar’s Somewhere, Home
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