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Narrating Amreeka:

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TLpq2441598124

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انگلیسی

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Narrating Amreeka:

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Said, Shafiq Munther

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Multicultural Hybridity and Arab-American Authorship

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Narain, Mona

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Texas Christian University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

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93

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

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Texas Christian University

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2020

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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.

Arab Americans

British & Irish literature

Comparative literature

Ethnic studies

Middle Eastern literature

Multiculturalism & pluralism

Narain, Mona

Said, Shafiq Munther

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