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Contemporary Arab-American literature: transnational reconfigurations of citizenship and belonging

By Carol , Fadda-Conrey

Book information

Publisher
New York University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781479826926, 9781479804313, 9781479819027, 1479819026
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2694882 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\257
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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 citizenship and belonging.

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