Topic: Arab- American Women Writers

I am doing research on Arab- American women writers. It will take the form of a study of Multiculturalism and the negotiation of identity in the works of three Arab American women writers My research aims to explore where Arab women immigrants stand in relation to other women immigrant writers, the influences other minority writers have had on Arab American literature and the future of the feminist identity in literature.
The introduction of around 10- 15 pages needs to show the ?uniqueness? of the Arab- American immigrant experience by identifying a ?mode of literary Arabness?, delineated in terms of literary aesthetics and chronology of production. This focus would then also recognise and embrace the question of canon-formation, issues surrounding the politics of publication, adoption of subaltern language, and potential Arab, American, and Arab-American readerships.
The introduction should include the history and definition of such terms as ?whiteness?, ?feminism?, ideas of race, and the central concept of ?hyphenated identity.? These should lead to the formation of a clear idea about the term Arab American (with or without hyphenation) showing the diversity of the origins of the term and the divergences in the experiences of different waves of immigrants.
The research then needs to cite comparable explorations of diasporic or ethnic experience within American literature (e.g. African American and Asian American writing) scrutinising the similarities and differences in experience and expression which these analogies reveal.
Examples of Arab-American literature in English should be defined stylistically and thematically in comparison and contrast with precedents in Arabic literature. The history should be punctuated by significant historical events, namely, 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict, the 1991 Gulf War, and 9/11) against which the literary examples could be mapped.
The next 30- 45 pages should show a detailed study of the works of Arab- American author Naomi Shihab Nye in light of all the above mentioned aspects. The literature under consideration should be clearly identifiable as both the product and portrayal of second-generation immigrant families, with the dynamic of family life, and gender- and generation-based tensions, as the key continuities.
Primary Texts:
Following is a list of some primary text. At least one novel and one anthology of poetry has to be cited and used.
Red Suitcase
Fuel
You and Yours
19 Varieties of Gazelle
Honeybee
Time you let me in
What have you lost?
This same sky
Habibi (a novel)
Going Going (novel)
There is no Long Distance Now (short- short fiction)

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