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By Carol Fadda-Conrey

ISBN-10: 1479804312

ISBN-13: 9781479804313

ISBN-10: 1479826928

ISBN-13: 9781479826926

The final couple of many years have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature throughout a number of genres. but, elevated curiosity during this literature is mockingly paralleled by way of a common bias opposed to Arabs and Muslims that portrays their lengthy presence within the US as a up to date and unwelcome phenomenon. Spanning the Nineteen Nineties to the current, Carol Fadda-Conrey takes within the sweep of literary and cultural texts via Arab-American writers on the way to comprehend the ways that their depictions of Arab homelands, even if genuine or imagined, play a vital function in shaping cultural articulations folks citizenship and belonging. through saying themselves inside of a US framework whereas holding connections to their homelands, Arab-Americans contest the blanket representations of themselves as dictated by means of the USA nation-state.

Deploying a multidisciplinary framework on the intersection of Middle-Eastern reviews, US ethnic experiences, and diaspora stories, Fadda-Conrey argues for a transnational discourse that overturns the usually inflexible affiliations embedded in ethnic labels. Tracing the shifts in transnational views, from the founders of Arab-American literature, like Gibran Kahlil Gibran and Ameen Rihani, to trendy writers corresponding to Naomi Shihab Nye, Joseph Geha, Randa Jarrar, and Suheir Hammad, Fadda-Conrey reveals that modern Arab-American writers depict powerful but advanced attachments to the U.S. panorama. She explores how the assumption of house is negotiated among immigrant mom and dad and next generations, along analyses of texts that paintings towards fostering extra nuanced understandings of Arab and Muslim identities within the wake of post-9/11 anti-Arab sentiments.

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