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- Title
VIOLENT INTERSECTIONALITIES AND EXPERIENCES OF MARKED ARABNESS IN RANDA JARRAR'S A MAP OF HOME.
- Authors
Darwich, Lynn; Harb, Sirene
- Abstract
This article proposes an alternative analytical model to examine the shifting devaluation of racialized, classed, and gendered lives in Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home. As the novel depicts powerful instances of nonnormative practices, it lends itself to new analytical approaches for understanding the relationship between power, normativity, and value in Arab American fiction. The intellectual and political frameworks that inform this reading of the novel draw on Arab and Arab American feminisms, women of color feminisms, and queer of color critique. This emphasis marks a shift from existing criticism in proposing to interpret the characters' experiences, not as struggles of identity and belonging but as tense processes of gendered and classed racialization, self-representation, and political determination. In doing so, the discussion moves toward a critique of coercive practices that render Arab and Arab American lives in the United States vulnerable to threats of violence/exploitation in the context of neoliberalism.
- Subjects
MAP of Home, A (Book : Jarrar); JARRAR, Randa; ARAB American fiction; FEMINISM in literature; RACIALIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM
- Publication
Arab Studies Quarterly, 2018, Vol 40, Issue 4, p300
- ISSN
0271-3519
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13169/arabstudquar.40.4.0300