A Bridge Too Soon The Life and Works of 'Afīfa Karam: The First Arab American Woman Novelist

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" A Bridge Too Soon The Life and Works of 'Afīfa Karam: The First Arab American Woman Novelist "
Elizabeth Claire Saylor Larkin, Margaret

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	803668
Doc. No	:	TL48467
Call number	:	‭1730862477;‮ ‬3733426‬
Main Entry	:	Jung, Kang-uk
Title & Author	:	A Bridge Too Soon The Life and Works of 'Afīfa Karam: The First Arab American Woman Novelist\ Elizabeth Claire SaylorLarkin, Margaret
College	:	University of California, Berkeley
Date	:	2015
Degree	:	Ph.D.
field of study	:	Near Eastern Studies
student score	:	2015
Page No	:	177
Note	:	Committee members: AlSayyad, Nezar; Kronfeld, Chana
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-21701-7
Abstract	:	This dissertation provides the first in-depth study of the Lebanese-American immigrant writer, journalist, and translator ‘Afīfa Karam (1883-1924), an important contributor to the <i>nahda,</i> the Arabic cultural renaissance of the late 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th </sup> centuries. Karam published three Arabic novels in New York City between 1906 and 1910, predating the publication of Haykal’s <i>Zaynab </i> (1914), which is widely credited as the first Arabic novel. This study challenges the dominant narrative of the evolution of the modern Arabic novel, and posits that Karam’s absence from the Arabic canon stems not only from her gender, but also from her deterritorialized status as a member of the <i>mahjar</i> (diasporic) community of Arabs living in North and South America.
Subject	:	Modern literature; Middle Eastern literature; Womens studies; Diaspora; Authorial voice; Arabs; Arabic language; Narratives; Literary criticism; Novels; Politics; Immigrants; Feminism; Women; Translators
Descriptor	:	Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arabic;Mahjar;Nahda;Novel
Added Entry	:	Larkin, Margaret
Added Entry	:	Near Eastern StudiesUniversity of California, Berkeley