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Arab and Arab American women writers today are embedded in a political, social, and ethical complex that, whether explicitly or not, affects their writing. Using the metaphor of invisibility to describe the state of their existence and that of their work, their efforts are directed toward writing themselves and their experiences into visibility. Uniquely positioned as transnational subjects, their subjectivities are forged across multiple, often global vectors of identification, providing them with multiple consciousness. Their writing thus not only to attests to their presence, but also critiques and questions what exactly it means to be Arab, American, and Arab American. The works and experiences of

Cette étude examine le cadre épistémologique d’ Ararat (Atom Egoyan, 2002) afin de comprendre le génocide arménien. Confronté à une demande de spectacle sensationnel et à l’impossibilité de le visualiser, le film Ararat montre comment narrativiser les traumatismes persistants de ce passé. L’article montre la façon dont ce film utilise la famille comme structure narrative, avec l’image sacrée de la Madone et de l’Enfant en son centre, afin d’articuler les effets moins spectaculaires, et silencieux du traumatisme historique. Traquant des « actions de désir » et leurs moments de catharsis, l’article tente de montrer qu’en renonçant au spectacle sensationnel, le film met en lumière la mélancolie de « sans avenir » produite par une postmémoire de génocide. En mettant en avant-plan l’affiliation étroite de Celia avec la famille, l’article soutient que sa relation tenue fait d’elle un personnage central dans l’articulation et la survie de la mémoire du génocide. Ainsi, l’esthétique postmoderne du film permet de traiter des « outsiders » dans son défi de reconnaissance du génocide arménien.

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Criticized for being too Euro- and Americentric, world literature scholarship tends to center on the American implications of this shortcoming, with little discussion of world literature beyond these centers. This paper thus addresses the function of world literature beyond these centers, particularly in the lingua franca of global business: English. Drawing from my experience in the United Arab Emirates, I argue that because students in the region come from places with fraught colonial histories, migrant, Anglophone literature is critical in the world literature classroom because it allows them to see their own experiences articulated in the global literary vernacular. Using Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf as an example, I show how its transnational scope addresses both the hegemonic, Euro-American gaze, but also the students’. Thus, Anglophone literature is not necessarily the extension of an imperialist project or a flattening of differences; rather, it becomes an articulation of them.