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1	Imagining sittee : constructions of homelands and grandmother narratives in Arab American literature Eltahawy, Nora 29 November 2010 (has links) This report examines the use of grandmother figures in the construction of imagined communities in Arab American literature. Through the lens of diaspora studies, it argues that grandmother figures become integral in the creation of an Arab American imagined community based on two main tropes: a theoretical collapse between notions of patriotism and the maternal figure (in which the homeland becomes the Motherland) and the tendency of second-generation Arab American authors to connect their immigrant grandmothers to ethnic homelands. In exploring this connection, the report argues that the creation of an Arab American imagined community is necessitated by anti-Arab racism in the United States and the need for the community’s authors to be seen in tandem with the literary traditions of other ethnic minorities in America. The report problematizes the imagined homeland by arguing that it is constructed on the basis of simplistic juxtapositions between different generations within the Arab American community, and ends by examining the anxiety that is generated when this juxtaposition and the imagined community are threatened. / text Arab American Diaspora studies Imagined communities Ethnic American literature
2	THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALE BILDUNGSROMAN Rountree, Wendy Alexia 11 October 2001 (has links) No description available. Literature, American AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE WOMEN WRITERS BILDINGSROMANE AMERICAN LITERATURE ETHNIC AMERICAN LITERATURE
3	Alluding to Protest: Resistance in Post War American Literature Calhoun, Jamie Dawn 12 August 2009 (has links) No description available. American Literature American Studies Canadian Literature Native Americans Resistance in American Literature Protest in Literature Post War American Literature Allusion Multi-Ethnic American Literature Maxine Hong Kingston Percival Everett Thomas King Robert Coover The Rosenbergs Black Identity

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