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- Title
"Hijab" Scenes: Muslim Women, Migration, and Hijab in Immigrant Muslim Literature.
- Authors
Abdurraqib, Samaa
- Abstract
This article discusses the tension between assimilation and retention of cultural otherness among Arab immigrants the U.S. as reflected in Arab American literature. Specifically the choice of Arab American women to wear a veil or "hijab" is used as the symbol of females' dilemma in compromising their religion and cultural identity and subordinating those to pressures for conformity and assimilation to American culture. The author proposes that such women's stories will create a new genre of Arab American or "immigrant" literature that defies assimilation. Veiling becomes an expression of Muslim Americanness.
- Subjects
AMERICA; UNITED States; ARAB American women; WOMEN &; literature; WOMEN immigrants; ASSIMILATION (Sociology); IDENTITY (Philosophical concept); WOMEN authors; RELIGIOUS identity; LITERATURE
- Publication
MELUS, 2006, Vol 31, Issue 4, p55
- ISSN
0163-755X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/melus/31.4.55