Arab American literature in the ethnic borderland: cultural intersections in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent.

From: MELUS | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: Fadda-Conrey, Carol | Copyright information

Critical inquiries into Arab American literary studies have often questioned the relative absence of this community from the ethnic canon, with feminist writers like Joanna Kadi describing Arab Americans as "the Most Invisible of the Invisibles" (xix). Such a statement situates this community vis-a-vis other ethnic groups in terms of a discourse of invisibility that, although varying between one group and another, still acts as a common ethnic marker. The isolated enclaves that eth...

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