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1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
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 ci. |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- Arab American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Arab American authors. |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
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Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
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Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. |
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Homeland in literature.
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Homeland in literature. |
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Arab Americans in literature.
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Arab Americans in literature. |
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Arabs in literature.
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Arabs in literature. |
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Arab countries -- In literature.
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Arab countries. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fadda-Conrey, Carol. Contemporary Arab-American literature. New York ; London : New York University Press, [2014] 9781479826926 (DLC) 2013049739 (OCoLC)867769921 |
| ISBN |
9781479819027 (electronic book) |
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1479819026 (electronic book) |
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9781479826926 |
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1479826928 |
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9781479804313 |
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1479804312 |
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