Mirroring Hybridity: The use of Arab Folk Tradition in Laila Halaby&apos;s <i>Once in a Promised Land</i> and Alia Yunis&apos;s <i>The Night Counter </i>

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Mirroring Hybridity: The use of Arab Folk Tradition in Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land and Alia Yunis's The Night Counter

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Author(s): Reem M. Hilal

Publication date (Print): 1 October 2020

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Keywords: Arab and Muslim American, hybridity, folk tradition, novel, diaspora, 9/11

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[1] Behdad, A. (2005). A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States. Durham NC: Duke University Press.

[2] Bilici, Mucahit. 2010. “Muslim Ethnic Comedy: Inversions of Islamophobia.” In Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend, by Andrew, ed. Shryock, 195–208. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

[3] Fadda-Conrey, C. (2014). Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging. New York: New York University Press.

[4] Greenblatt, S. (2009) Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[5] Halaby, L. (2007). Once in a Promised Land. Boston MA: Beacon Press.

[6] Jackson, R. (2005). Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-Terrorism. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

[7] Naber, N. (2012). Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. New York: New York University Press.

[8] Pannewick, F. (2009). Performativity and mobility: Middle Eastern traditions on the move. In Stephen Greenblatt (ed.), Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[9] Said, E. (1996). Representations of the Intellectual. New York: Vintage.

[10] Salaita, S. (2006). Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes from and What it Means for Politics Today. London: Pluto Press.

[11] Salaita, S. (2007). Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

[12] Shaheen, J. G. (2012). Reel bad Arabs: How Hollywood vilifies a people. Northampton MA: Interlink Publishing.

[13] Yekenkurul, S. (2011, December). Broken Narratives in the Immigrant Folktalke. Current Narratives, 1(3), 54–63.

[14] Yunis, A. (2010). The Night Counter. New York: Broadway Books.