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This book examines the modes of resistance and assimilation in Arab-American women's poetry. In order to do so it investigates the origins of Arab-American literature and the history of Arabs and their immigration to America and the production and reception of Arab-American texts by the American mainstream culture. My intention is to clarify the modes of resistance and assimilation as two important aspects in Arab-American writings and the forces that formulate and shape these modes, and the extent to which these modes reflect the complexities and difficulties that Arab-American face in their daily life in America.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book examines the modes of resistance and assimilation in Arab-American women's poetry. In order to do so it investigates the origins of Arab-American literature and the history of Arabs and their immigration to America and the production and reception of Arab-American texts by the American mainstream culture. My intention is to clarify the modes of resistance and assimilation as two important aspects in Arab-American writings and the forces that formulate and shape these modes, and the extent to which these modes reflect the complexities and difficulties that Arab-American face in their daily life in America.
Autorenporträt
Salih Al-Hussein has Ph.D. in contemporary American poetry, the University of Baghdad. A visiting scholar at Michigan State University 2013. He is the author of a critical study on contemporary Arab-American poetry and has published several articles on minority literature. He is currently a lecturer at the College of Arts,University of Mosul, Iraq