The Question of Foreignness in Mohja Kahf&apos;s <i>E-mails from Scheherazad</i>

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Volume 36, Issue 3

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The Question of Foreignness in Mohja Kahf's E-mails from Scheherazad

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Author(s): Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar

Publication date (Print): Summer 2014

Journal: Arab Studies Quarterly

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Keywords: Kahf, Anglophone, Arab, poetry, Kristeva, foreignness

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Publication date (Print): Summer 2014

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Abdurraqib, S. (2009). Making It Survive Here and Dreams of Return: Community and Identity in the Poetry of Mohja Kahf. In Layla Al Maleh (ed.) Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature (pp. 449–463). New York: Rodopi.
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[1] Abdelrazek, A. T. (2007). Contemporary Arab American Women Writers: Hyphenated Identities and Border Crossing . New York: Cambria Press.

[2] Abdurraqib, S. (2009). Making It Survive Here and Dreams of Return: Community and Identity in the Poetry of Mohja Kahf. In Layla Al Maleh (ed.) Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature (pp. 449–463). New York: Rodopi.

[3] Al Maleh, L., (ed.) (2009). Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature . New York: Rodopi.

[4] Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., and Tiffin, H., (eds.) (1995). The Post-Colonial Reader . London: Routledge.

[5] Aziz, B. N. (2004). Foreword. In Susan Muaddi Darraj (ed.) Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing (pp. XI–XVI). Westport: Praeger.

[6] Behdad, A. (2005). A Forgetful Nation . Durham: Duke University Press.

[7] Bhabha, H. (1994). Location of Culture . New York: Routledge.

[8] Bhabha, H. (1995). Unpacking My Library. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association , 28(1), 5–18.

[9] Clifford, J. (1997). Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

[10] Darraj, S. M., (ed.) (2004). Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing . Westport: Praeger.

[11] Hout, S. (2012). Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora . Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh.

[12] Kahf, M. (2003). E-mails from Scheherazad . Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

[13] Kristeva, J. (1991). Stranger to Ourselves , trans. Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press.

[14] Ludescher, T. (2006). From Nostalgia to Critique: An Overview of Arab American Literature. MELUS , 31(4), 93–114.

[15] Macrarquhar, N. (2007). “She Carries Weapons; They Are Called Words.” The New York Times , May 12, 2007. Web. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/books/12veil.html?pagewanted=all>.

[16] Orfalea, G., and Elmusa, S., (eds.) (2000). Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab American Poetry . New York: Interlink Books.

[17] Safran, W. (1991). Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies , 1(1), 83–99.

[18] Said, E. (2000). Reflections on Exile and Other Essays . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

[19] Salaita, S. (2011). Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader's Guide . New York: Syracuse University Press.