Contemporary Arab American women writers
Subtitle: hyphenated identities and border crossings
By: Amal Talaat Abdelrazek.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Youngstown, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781934043714
Subjects: American literature -- Arab American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: "Swimmers in dangerous waters/defiers of shark" : negotiation and resistance in Mohja Kahf's Emails from scheherazad; title: In-between women and narratives of displacement in West of the Jordan by Laila Halaby; title: "Elsewhere-within-here/-there" : exiles and the identity of home/s in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent.