Arab American literature and culture [electronic resource] / Alfred Hornung, Martina Kohl (eds.).

This volume focuses on the literature and culture of Arabs living in the United States who have gained new prominence after 9/11. For a proper assessment of their situation it seeks to provide basic information on the history and transculturation of immigrants from different parts of the Arab world....

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 199.
Other Authors: Hornung, Alfred (Editor)
Kohl, Martina (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2012]
Series:American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 199.
Subjects:
Arab American literature > History and criticism.
Arab Americans in popular culture.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Challenges facing the Arab American community from a legal perspective / Ghada Quaisi Audi
  • Muslim Americans in American society: and in the German classroom / Rolf D. Theis
  • Arab American literature: origins and developments / Lisa Suhair Majaj
  • Constructing selfhood in three spaces: the fluid subjectvity embodied in El-Saadawi's My life / Zou Lanfang and Yu Yuping
  • Arab Americans in literature and in the media / Mita Banerjee
  • From sheikh to terrorist? Arab characters in American film / Mita Banerjee and Günther Sommerschuh
  • "Yes, I will blow up this place, but first I have a coffee": representations of Arab Americcans in post-911 American films / Heike Raphael-Hernandez
  • Amazing acrobats of language: the theatre of Yussef El Guindi / Anneka Esch-van Kan
  • Arabian dance in the promised land: hyphenating identity in contemporary Arab(-)American women's literature / Silke Schmidt
  • "Rowing for Palestine," performing the other: Suheir Hammad, Mark Gerban and multiple conciousness / Birgit M. Bauridl
  • "Fear of an Arab planet": the sounds and rhythms of Afro-Arab internationalism / Alex Lubin
  • Global diaspora sphere: the Arab experience: the success story of a Syrian village / Anton Escher
  • Mosques in North America / Omar Khalidi.