Narrating Amreeka: Multicultural Hybridity and Arab-American Authorship

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" Narrating Amreeka: Multicultural Hybridity and Arab-American Authorship "
Said, Shafiq Munther Narain, Mona

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1054189
Doc. No	:	TL53306
Main Entry	:	Said, Shafiq Munther
Title & Author	:	Narrating Amreeka: Multicultural Hybridity and Arab-American Authorship\ Said, Shafiq MuntherNarain, Mona
College	:	Texas Christian University
Date	:	2020
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2020
Note	:	93 p.
Abstract	:	This thesis explores Arab-American authorship and the specific literary and authorial strategies that these writers use to navigate and narrativize issues of transnationalism, cultural hybridization, and identities in motion. I hypothesize that Arab-American authorship is characterized by its propensity to engage with and actively promote hybrid identification strategies and transcultural dialogues, postulating that Arab-American writers actively integrate and adapt multiple spatial and cross-cultural identities through their collective and creative practice of restorying. To this end, my thesis explores Arab-American authorship and its construction of intercultural and hybrid forms of self-production in two principal types of literary production: autobiographies / autoethnographies and folk-epics. By studying how narratives of Arab-American cultural identity and selfness are constructed within these literary genres, I hope to delineate a poetics of the more nascent Arab-American literature which foregrounds and advocates for multicultural hybridity and multimodality.
Descriptor	:	Arab Americans
	:	British Irish literature
	:	Comparative literature
	:	Ethnic studies
	:	Middle Eastern literature
	:	Multiculturalism pluralism
Added Entry	:	Narain, Mona
Added Entry	:	Texas Christian University