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Modern Arab American Fiction Arab American Writing Other titles in Arab American Writing Bread Alone Kim Jensen Does the Land Remember Me? A Memoir of Palestine Aziz Shihab Letters from Cairo Pauline Kaldas Loom: A Novel Thérèse Soukar Chehade Love Is Like Water and Other Stories Samia Serageldin Th e Man Who Guarded the Bomb: Stories Gregory Orfalea Th e New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy: A Novel Frances Khirallah Noble Remember Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America Evelyn Shakir Swimming Toward the Light: A Novel Angela Tehaan Leone Th rough and Th rough: Toledo Stories, 2d ed. Joseph Geha M O D E R N A R A B A M E R I C A N F I C T I O N A Reader’s Guide S T E V E N S A L A I T A Syracuse University Press Mohamad El-Hindi Books on Arab Culture and Islamic Civilization are published with the assistance of a grant from the M.E.H. Foundation. Copyright © 2011 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2011 11 12 13 14 15 16 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ Th e paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3277-1 (cloth) ISBN: 978-0-8156-3253-5 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Salaita, Steven, 1975– Modern Arab American fi ction : a reader’s guide / Steven Salaita. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Arab American writing) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3277-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8156-3253-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American fi ction—Arab American authors—History and criticism. 2. American fi ction— 20th century—History and criticism. 3. Arab Americans in literature. 4. Arabs in literature. I. Title. PS153.A73S33 2011 813'.54098927—dc22 2010052845 Manufactured in the United States of America Steven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. His other books include Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes from and What It Means for Politics Today; Arab American Literary Fictions, Culture, and Politics; and Th e Holy Land in Transit (Syracuse University Press, 2006). Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American Fiction: Etel Adnan, Rawi Hage, Patricia Sarrafi an Ward 11 3. Exploring Islam(s) in America: Mohja Kahf 32 4. Sex, Violence, and Storytelling: Rabih Alameddine 42 5. The Eternity of Immigration: Arab American Short Story Collections (Joseph Geha, Frances Khirallah Noble, Evelyn Shakir, Susan Muaddi Darraj) 60 6. Promised Lands and Unfulfi lled Promises: Laila Halaby 79 7. Crescent Moons, Jazz Music, and Feral Ethnicity: Diana Abu-Jaber 96 8. From the Maghreb to the American Mainstream: Writers of North African Origin (Anouar Majid, Laila Lalami, Samia Serageldin) 112 9. Potpourri: Alicia Erian, Randa Jarrar, Susan Abulhawa 125 Notes 143 viii | c on t e n t s Suggestions for Further Reading 147 Bibliography 151 Index 153 Modern Arab American Fiction
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