Race&Gender inArabAmerican Lit

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This course offers a deep understanding of Arab American literature. While interest in such literature has only culminated in the U.S. after 9/11, authors from Arab descent have striven to express differentiation issues due to dominant Orientalist discourses in the U.S. for more than a century. Arab American women and Black authors have, in their turn, present yet more complex expressions of racial and gender identity. The course pays special attention to diverse literary articulations of what constitutes home, conflict, and identity in Arab American literary works from the time of their emergence to the present. Offered regularly.