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Arab Voices in Diaspora
Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature
Series: - Cross/Cultures, Volume: 115
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Arab Voices in Diaspora offers a wide-ranging overview and an insightful study of the field of anglophone Arab literature produced across the world. The first of its kind, it chronicles the development of this literature from its inception at the turn of the past century until the post 9/11 era. The book sheds light not only on the historical but also on the cultural and aesthetic value of this literary production, which has so far received little scholarly attention. It also seeks to place anglophone Arab literary works within the larger nomenclature of postcolonial, emerging, and ethnic literature, as it finds that the authors are haunted by the same âhybridâ, âexilicâ, and âdiasporicâ questions that have dogged their fellow postcolonialists. Issues of belonging, loyalty, and affinity are recognized and dealt with in the various essays, as are the various concerns involved in cultural and relational identification. The contributors to this volume come from different national backgrounds and share in examining the nuances of this emerging literature.
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 FaddaâConrey, 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
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 FaddaâConrey, 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
Layla Al Maleh is associate professor of English literature at Kuwait University. She was the first to draw attention to anglophone Arab literature in a doctoral dissertation entitled âThe English Novel by Arab Writersâ submitted to Kingâs College, London University as far back as 1980. She has taught at Damascus University, Syria and the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and was a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Acknowledgements
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 FaddaâConrey: Transnational Diaspora and the Search for Home in Rabih Alameddineâs I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Cristina Garrigós: The Dynamics of Intercultural Dislocation: Hybridity in Rabih Alameddineâs I, The Divine
Brinda J. Mehta: The Semiosis of Food in Diana Abu Jaberâs Crescent
Diya M. Abdo: How to Be a Successful Double Agent: (Dis)placement as Strategy in Fadia Faqirâs Pillars of Salt
Fadia Suyoufie & Lamia Hammad : Women in Exile : The âUnhomelyâ in Fadia Faqirâs 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 Aboulelaâs Minaret
Geoffrey P. Nash: From Harem to Harvard: Cross-Cultural Memoir in Leila Ahmedâs 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 âDreams of Returnâ: Community and Identity in the Poetry of Mohja Kahf
Dawn Mirapuri: Meditations on Memory and Belonging: Nada Awar Jarrarâs Somewhere, Home
Notes on Contributors
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 FaddaâConrey: Transnational Diaspora and the Search for Home in Rabih Alameddineâs I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Cristina Garrigós: The Dynamics of Intercultural Dislocation: Hybridity in Rabih Alameddineâs I, The Divine
Brinda J. Mehta: The Semiosis of Food in Diana Abu Jaberâs Crescent
Diya M. Abdo: How to Be a Successful Double Agent: (Dis)placement as Strategy in Fadia Faqirâs Pillars of Salt
Fadia Suyoufie & Lamia Hammad : Women in Exile : The âUnhomelyâ in Fadia Faqirâs 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 Aboulelaâs Minaret
Geoffrey P. Nash: From Harem to Harvard: Cross-Cultural Memoir in Leila Ahmedâs 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 âDreams of Returnâ: Community and Identity in the Poetry of Mohja Kahf
Dawn Mirapuri: Meditations on Memory and Belonging: Nada Awar Jarrarâs Somewhere, Home
Notes on Contributors