06481oam 22011294a 450 991082646220332120240404183119.01-4798-1902-610.18574/9781479819027(CKB)3710000000117718(EBL)1695992(SSID)ssj0001224134(PQKBManifestationID)12521109(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001224134(PQKBWorkID)11261406(PQKB)11484654(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326419(MiAaPQ)EBC1695992(DE-B1597)547404(DE-B1597)9781479819027(OCoLC)880579503(MdBmJHUP)muse86982(EXLCZ)99371000000011771820140909h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary Arab-American LiteratureTransnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging /Carol Fadda-Conrey1st ed.New York, N.Y. :New York University Press,op. 2014.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2021©op. 2014.1 online resource (257 p.)American Literatures Initiative ;5Description based upon print version of record.1-4798-0431-2 1-4798-2692-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Transnational Arab-American Belonging -- Reimagining the Ancestral Arab Homeland -- To the Arab Homeland and Back: Narratives of Returns and Rearrivals -- Translocal Connections between the US and the Arab World -- Representing Arabs and Muslims in the US after 9/11: Gender, Religion, and Citizenship -- Conclusion: Transnational Solidarity and the Arab Uprisings.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.Deploying a multidisciplinary framework at the intersection of Middle-Eastern studies, US ethnic studies, and diaspora studies, Fadda-Conrey argues for a transnational discourse that overturns the often rigid affiliations embedded in ethnic labels. Tracing the shifts in transnational perspectives, from the founders of Arab-American literature, like Gibran Kahlil Gibran and Ameen Rihani, to modern writers such as Naomi Shihab Nye, Joseph Geha, Randa Jarrar, and Suheir Hammad, Fadda-Conrey finds that contemporary Arab-American writers depict strong yet complex attachments to the US landscape. She explores how the idea of home is negotiated between immigrant parents and subsequent generations, alongside analyses of texts that work toward fostering more nuanced understandings of Arab and Muslim identities in the wake of post-9/11 anti-Arab sentiments.American Literatures Initiative20e siècle (2e moitié)-21e siècle (début)reroIdentité collectivereroÉcrivains arabesreroÉcrivains appartenant à des minoritésreroAméricains d'origine arabeIdentite collectiveramAméricains d'origine arabeDans la litteratureramArabesDans la litteratureramLitterature americaineAuteurs appartenant à des minoritesHistoire et critiqueramLiteraturefast(OCoLC)fst00999953Identity (Psychology) in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00966910Homeland in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01896061Arabs in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00812609Arab Americans in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00812211American literatureArab American authorsfast(OCoLC)fst00807122Alienation (Social psychology) in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00805273Arabs in literatureArab Americans in literatureHomeland in literatureAlienation (Social psychology) in literatureIdentity (Psychology) in literatureAmerican literatureArab American authorsHistory and criticismArab countriesfastArab countriesIn literatureCriticism, interpretation, etc.20e siècle (2e moitié)-21e siècle (début)Identité collective.Écrivains arabes.Écrivains appartenant à des minorités.Américains d'origine arabeIdentite collective.Américains d'origine arabeDans la litterature.ArabesDans la litterature.Litterature americaineAuteurs appartenant à des minoritesHistoire et critique.Literature.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Homeland in literature.Arabs in literature.Arab Americans in literature.American literatureArab American authors.Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.Arabs in literature.Arab Americans in literature.Homeland in literature.Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.Identity (Psychology) in literature.American literatureArab American authorsHistory and criticism.810.98927LIT004020LIT004220SOC002010bisacshFadda-Conrey Carolaut719669MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910826462203321Contemporary Arab-American literature1397592UNINA