Poetics of visibility in the contemporary Arab American novel /
""Redefines dominant perceptions of Arab Americans via an aesthetic analysis of Arab American novels, such as Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz and Crescent, Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War, Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land, and Mohja Kahf's The Girl in t...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press
[2020]
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.1011735 |
Sommario:
- Introduction: Poetics of Visibility, Visible Poetics
- The Disease as Queer Cure: Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War
- Blue Notes and Accented Rhythms: Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz
- Sign after Sign: Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
- Anagrams of Identity: Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land
- Reframing Infidelity: Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent
- Conclusion: Arab American Polyphonics.