In Search Of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness In Diana Abu-Jaber's <i>Crescent</i>

Gana, Nouri

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“…Given the dominance of the rhetoric of progress, Postcolonial Arab cultures are no exception as they continue to grapple with the enduring aftereffects of colonial drama ever since the loss of al-Andalus (cf. Gana 2008). Gil Anidjar delineates such rhetoric by exploring the limitations of Western systems of thought in which disciplinary boundaries have been erected to thwart Arab/Muslim potentialities.…”

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“Epistemicide” and “Memoricide”, Legalized Destruction in the Arab/Muslim World

Kharoua

2023

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This article is a contribution to Postcolonial Trauma Studies. It aims to examine the ways in which Arab cultures bear the lasting aftereffects of the loss of al-Andalus that took place in 1492. Its focus is especially on the ramifications of such a key juncture in history that has enduringly contributed to the legitimation of the destruction of the Arab/Muslim cultures’ heritage. Western-centric knowledge came to license violence based on the demonization of the Other’s ways of knowing. Based on a postcolonial rethinking of trauma, the Arab cultures bear witness to the existence of the same discursive frameworks that made the destruction of the cultural heritage of al-Andalus possible.

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“Epistemicide” and “Memoricide”, Legalized Destruction in the Arab/Muslim World

Kharoua

2023

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“…The stereotypes have grown to relate Arabs to violence, terrorism and radicalism. As a result, this is perhaps the biggest reason that some Arab writers wish to reflect the real image of Arabs and defy the stereotypes about Arabs that have been promulgated since those attacks (Gana 2008). mentions some terms that have been added to the already well-known stereotypes about Arabs such as -backwards‖, -merciless‖, -oppressive‖, -violent‖, and -terrorist‖ (p. 1).…”

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Constructing Arab Western Identities Through Metamorphosis in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons

Awajan

2023

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The current study explores the way Leila Aboulela uses metamorphosis in her novel Bird Summons (2019). The study also shows how Aboulela’s three main characters construct their identities as Arab living in the West through metamorphosis, where they reach to what Homi Bhabha calls “The Third Space”. That is, they are transformed into different shapes and creatures due to the problems they are exposed to in the West as Arabs. The remain as such until they reach a stage where they overcome their issues and adopt their new identities as Arab Westerners. The novel is approached through postcolonial views, and especially Edward Said’s views on Orientalism and how the West sees the Orient. It is also explored through Homi Bhabha’s views on “the Third Space”. There are few studies that are conducted on the current novel. Most of the studies conducted are done on the quest of the three characters and not on how they transformed through metamorphosis.

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“…They have tackled many themes such as identity, political issues, dislocation and other serious topics that express the Arab issues in diasporic contexts. For example, Gana (2008) raises many themes discussed by Arab writers in diaspora such as "migration", "indigeneity", and "belonging" which are, in the meantime, issues that the Arabs, who live in the West, suffer from as "a source of national anguish, dilemmas, disenchantments and one of the main engines of coercive and discriminatory policies" (p. 13). Many writers and authors have taken the role of introducing the Arabic world and its culture through their writings to the West at a time when migration to the West first began, but it was not until after September 11, 2001 when they started to gain attention and importance (Al-Maleh 2009, p. 1).…”

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“…They started to write against the well-known and overused stereotypes that have been circulated about Arabs and their culture (Al-Maleh 2009, p. 1;Gana 2008, p. 18). According to Gana (2008), this has educated many Euro-Americans on who the Arabs and Muslims truly are (19).…”

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The Taboos of Occupation in Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent and Naomi Shihab Nye’s Habibi

Awajan¹

2022

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The study explores the effect of occupation on the occupied population in both Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent (2003) and Naomi Shihab Nye’s Habibi (1999). The impact of occupation is usually thought to be (and quite often are) taboos that cannot easily be revealed by the occupied, and if they are revealed, the audience will end up getting two different versions of the stories - one version from the occupier and the other version from the occupied. Abu Jaber and Nye express the taboos that are a result of the occupation of certain Middle Eastern countries, and more specifically, Iraq and Palestine. This paper attempts to show how both writers reflect which cannot be presented and spoken - the taboos of occupation - in their literary works, Crescent and Habibi. They even enhance these taboos by presenting them through different characters. There has been much literature written on both works, but there is still a lack in literature discussing how these authors have presented the taboos of occupation in Iraq and Palestine and how these writers took advantage of presenting these taboos through their narratives. Added to that, most of literature that has been written on current novels is about the political issues that these two countries have suffered from rather than the effect of these political issues on the people living in Iraq and Palestine. Second, most of the literature written has tackled each of the author’s works alone rather than written on the two novels together.

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In Search Of Andalusia: Reconfiguring Arabness In Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent

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“Epistemicide” and “Memoricide”, Legalized Destruction in the Arab/Muslim World

“Epistemicide” and “Memoricide”, Legalized Destruction in the Arab/Muslim World

Constructing Arab Western Identities Through Metamorphosis in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons

The Taboos of Occupation in Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent and Naomi Shihab Nye’s Habibi

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