<i>Arabian Nights</i>in America: Hybrid Form and Identity in Diana Abu-Jaber's<i>Crescent</i>

Michael, Magali Cornier

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“…Arab food is represented as a way to enhance Arab culture and present it to the West and at the same time provides a place for the Arab characters to feel at home. Michael (2011) states that the name Arab is used generically in Abu-Jaber's Crescent, as it is in the United States, to refer to people of Islamic Middle Eastern heritage. In actuality, "Arabs" are "those individuals who come from places where the Arabic language is spoken" (though distinctions exist within the language itself), and "not all Arabs are Muslims, and not all Muslims are Arabs" (p. 4).…”

Section: B Abu-jaber's Depictions Of Arabs In Crescentmentioning

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The Ambivalent Depictions of Arabs in Naomi Shihab Nye’s Habibi and Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent

AlOmari¹,

Awajan²

2023

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The study aims to identify how Arab-American authors Naomi Shihab Nye and Diana Abu-Jaber depict Arabs in their novels, Habibi and Crescent. Additionally, the study attempts to compare and contrast between the two writers’ depictions of Arabs in their novels. To achieve the objectives of the study, the theory of Post-colonialism is used; more specifically, Edward Said’s views from his book Orientalism are applied to both novels. The study concludes by showing how both Nye and Abu-Jaber depict Arab characters in an ambivalent way within their works, Habibi and Crescent, respectively, in that they sometimes present Arabs in a positive light and other times in a negative light. The study also concludes with a set of concepts that include lack of identity, hybridity, and multiculturalism that have affected Arab-Americans and influenced their cultural values. These representations are also considered ambivalent.

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Section: B Abu-jaber's Depictions Of Arabs In Crescentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ambivalent Depictions of Arabs in Naomi Shihab Nye’s Habibi and Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent

AlOmari¹,

Awajan²

2023

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Abu‐Jaber, Diana

Eltarabishy

2022

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020

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The Politics and Aesthetics of Storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber’s "Crescent": A Strategic Implementation of an Old Folkloric Arab Tradition

Berrebbah

2020

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This paper discusses the politics and multi-functionality of storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber’s novel Crescent (2003). I argue that the strategic use of storytelling places Crescent as a complex hybrid text that projects the nature, and development, of Arab American literature in the contemporary era. In addition to having the practice of storytelling as an apparatus to project identity in Crescent, Abu-Jaber re-appropriates its empowered status in Arab culture as well as politicizes its image in the mind of her readers. Besides employing critical and analytical approaches to the novel, this paper relies on arguments and perspectives of prominent postcolonial and literary critics and theorists such as Edward Said, Suzanne Keen, Walter Benjamin, and Samaya Sami Sabry, to name a few.

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Arabian Nightsin America: Hybrid Form and Identity in Diana Abu-Jaber'sCrescent

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

The Ambivalent Depictions of Arabs in Naomi Shihab Nye’s Habibi and Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent

The Ambivalent Depictions of Arabs in Naomi Shihab Nye’s Habibi and Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent

Abu‐Jaber, Diana

The Politics and Aesthetics of Storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber’s "Crescent": A Strategic Implementation of an Old Folkloric Arab Tradition

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