Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return combines immigration and identity theories to re-examine the notion of migration in Arabic literature. The study discusses Arabic narratives from the 1100s to 2010, some of which have never been translated in English.
Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return combines immigration and identity theories to re-examine the notion of migration in Arabic literature. The study discusses Arabic narratives from the 1100s to 2010, some of which have never been translated in English.
Wessam Elmeligi teaches at Macalester College and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Part I. Cultural Identity and Migration Chapter 1: Defining Cultural Identity Chapter 2: Introducing the Motif of Return in Arabic Migration Narrative Part II. Types of Return Chapter 3: Triumph in Return: Renarrating Identity in Naguib Mahfouz's "Return of Sinuhe" (1941) Chapter 4: Loss in Staying: The Failure to Return in Taha Hussein's A Man of Letters (1935) Chapter 5: The In-Between: The Return of the Mind in Miral Al-Tahawy's Brooklyn Heights (2010) Part III. A Poetics of Return Chapter 6: Ethnicity: Contrasting Identities in Tawfiq Al-Hakim's A Bird of the East (1938) Chapter 7: Religion: Reconciling Identities in Yahya Haqqi's The Saint's Lamp (1940) Chapter 8: Place: Locating Identity in Suhayl Idris's Al-Hayy Al-Latini (1953) Chapter 9: Sex: Eroticizing Migration in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1966) Chapter 10: Class: Laboring Migration in Mohammad Abdul Wali's They Die Strangers (1971) Chapter 11: Nationality: Historicizing Identity in Sonallah Ibrahim's Amrikanli (
Part I. Cultural Identity and Migration Chapter 1: Defining Cultural Identity Chapter 2: Introducing the Motif of Return in Arabic Migration Narrative Part II. Types of Return Chapter 3: Triumph in Return: Renarrating Identity in Naguib Mahfouz's "Return of Sinuhe" (1941) Chapter 4: Loss in Staying: The Failure to Return in Taha Hussein's A Man of Letters (1935) Chapter 5: The In-Between: The Return of the Mind in Miral Al-Tahawy's Brooklyn Heights (2010) Part III. A Poetics of Return Chapter 6: Ethnicity: Contrasting Identities in Tawfiq Al-Hakim's A Bird of the East (1938) Chapter 7: Religion: Reconciling Identities in Yahya Haqqi's The Saint's Lamp (1940) Chapter 8: Place: Locating Identity in Suhayl Idris's Al-Hayy Al-Latini (1953) Chapter 9: Sex: Eroticizing Migration in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1966) Chapter 10: Class: Laboring Migration in Mohammad Abdul Wali's They Die Strangers (1971) Chapter 11: Nationality: Historicizing Identity in Sonallah Ibrahim's Amrikanli (
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