![]() | Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging Subjects: American literature -- Arab American authors -- History and criticism; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Alienation (Social psychology) in literature; Homeland in literature; Arab Americans in literature; Arabs in literature; Arab countries -- In liter; 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. By asserting themselves within a US framework while maintaining connections to their homelands, Arab-Americans contest the blanket representations of themselves as dictated by the US nation-state. Fadda-Conrey Carol : Carol Fadda-Conrey is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University. |
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