Immigrant Narratives

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-979206-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Arab immigrants began to arrive in the United States in the late-nineteenth century and in Britain after World War Two. Those immigrants have produced a vast literature that remains relatively unknown outside of specialist circles. Like other ethnic literatures, Arab-American and Arab-British writing treats a variety of themes such as the immigrant experience, the lives of minorities, cultural misconceptions, and stereotypes. In addition to that, Arab immigrant writing also reveals unique perspectives on complex issues that continue to shape our world today, such as inter-faith relations, the tangled politics of the Middle East, the role played first by the British empire then by the United States in the region, the representations of Arabs and Arab culture in British and American societies, and the status of Muslim minorities there. Although those issues have acquired an unprecedented urgency in the post-9/11 period, they have preoccupied Arab-American and Arab-British writers since the early days of the twentieth century.

Immigrant Narratives offers a critical reading of that tradition from its inception to the present. Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, it investigates how key novelists and autobiographers have described their immigrant experiences, and in so doing acted as mediators and interpreters between cultures, and how they have forged new identities in their adopted countries.

Zielgruppe

Readers of journals like PMLA, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literary Studies, MELUS, Aljadid, Banipal, World Literature Today, American Literary History, ELH, Arab Studies Journal; scholars who study Arab American or Arab British literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hassan

Hassan, Wail S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1 The Rise of Arab-American Literature
2 The Gibran Phenomenon
3 The Emergence of Autobiography
4 The Retreat of Cultural Translation
5 Exilic Memoirs
6 Academic Itineraries
7 Postcolonial Translation
8 Muslim Immigrant Fiction
9 Queering Orientalism
Conclusion
Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Waïl S. Hassan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction, co-editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz, and translator of Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language.