Resistance of Arab-American. Mohja Kahf's poems "E-mails from Scheherazade" as a case study (eBook)

Adil Ouatat (Autor)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
17 Seiten
GRIN Verlag
978-3-346-79455-0 (ISBN)

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Case Study from the year 2023 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, , language: English, abstract: This paper examines how the contemporary Arab-American poet Mohja Kahf challenges the western and patriarchal interpretations of some Islamic cultural symbols like "Hijab" (the veil). In poems like "Descent in JFK", "Hijab Scene # 7", and "Thawrah Des Odalisques at the Matisse Retrospective", Mohja Kahf offers an interesting counterpoint to challenge hegemonic narratives about Arab-American women rooted in the nineteenth century Orientalist discourse, and foregrounds the paradoxical experience of what it means to be a veiled Arab-American Muslim woman in a non-Muslim country. While this paper focuses on Kahf's use of poetry as a form of resistance, it also rethinks the contemporary history of Arab-American women's stereotypic repertoire.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2023
• Verlagsort: München
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Schlagworte: Arab-American women • Diasporic discourse. • hyphenated identity • Mohja Kahf • Muslim feminism
• ISBN-10: 3-346-79455-5 / 3346794555
• ISBN-13: 978-3-346-79455-0 / 9783346794550