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Contemporary Arab-American literature : transnational reconfigurations of citizenship and belonging /
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 phenomen...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
London : NYU Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 ci. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479819027 1479819026 |