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- Title
Arab American Women's Writing and September 11: Contrapuntality and Associative Remembering.
- Authors
Harb, Sirène
- Abstract
An essay is presented which contends that the writings of Arab American women in the period following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are an articulation of a vision of solidarity and identity based on relationality and multiplicity. The writers' use of associative remembering and contrapuntality in their approach to the representation of September 2011 is explored. Ways in which writers such as Rabab Abdulhadi, Suheir Hammad, Mohja Kahf, Naomi Shihab Nye and Dima Hilal challenge efforts of U.S. official discourse to radically oppose the "Arab" and the "American" are also addressed.
- Subjects
ARAB American women; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; WOMEN authors; ABDULHADI, Rabab; HAMMAD, Suheir; KAHF, Mohja
- Publication
MELUS, 2012, Vol 37, Issue 3, p13
- ISSN
0163-755X
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/mel.2012.0044