Arab Anglophone Fiction: A New Voice in Post-9/11 America

  • Jameel Ahmed Al Ghaberi
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Abstract

This paper is a study of novels written by Arab American writers in an attempt to analyze how such writers portray the life of Arab Americans in a post-9/11 America. The paper shows how Arab Americans deal with the consequences of 9/11, and it also reflects several other aspects that characterize Arab American writing as an emerging post-9/11 new voice. It investigates the role of Anglophone Arab fiction in paving the way for more intercultural understanding and attempting to de-orientalize the Arab. Some writers often try to negotiate with the American culture in order to arrive at an identity that incorporates multiple elements from both the culture of origin and the host culture. Hybrid and cosmopolitan in their approach, such writers also attempt to be cultural mediators, and they show growing concern about subverting the normative judgment and stereotypical images that have fixed the Arab American.

Keywords

Anglophone, Post-9/11, Hybridity, Identity

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Author Biography

Jameel Ahmed Al Ghaberi

Jameel Ahmed Al Ghaberi is a PhD Research Scholar at Saurashtra University, India & a Teaching Assistant at Thamar University, Yemen.

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Published
2018-08-05
How to Cite
Ghaberi, J. A. A. “Arab Anglophone Fiction: A New Voice in Post-9/11 America”. Contemporary Literary Review India, Vol. 5, no. 3, Aug. 2018, pp. 38-53, https://literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/13.
Section
Research Papers