Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Layla Al Maleh: Anglophone Arab Literature: An Overview
Waïl S. Hassan: Gibran and Orientalism
Richard E. Hishmeh: Strategic Genius, Disidentification, and the Burden of The Prophet in Arab-American Poetry
Boulos Sarru: The Dialectic of the Nature/Man/God Trilogy of Acceptance and Tolerance in the Works of Amine F. Rihani
Syrine Hout: The Last Migration: The First Contemporary Example of Lebanese Diasporic Literature
Carol Fadda–Conrey: Transnational Diaspora and the Search for Home in Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Cristina Garrigós: The Dynamics of Intercultural Dislocation: Hybridity in Rabih Alameddine’s I, The Divine
Brinda J. Mehta: The Semiosis of Food in Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent
Diya M. Abdo: How to Be a Successful Double Agent: (Dis)placement as Strategy in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt
Fadia Suyoufie & Lamia Hammad : Women in Exile : The ‘Unhomely’ in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt
Marta Cariello: Bodies Across: Ahdaf Soueif, Fadia Faqir, Diana Abu Jaber
Marta Cariello: Searching for Room to Move: Producing and Negotiating Space in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret
Geoffrey P. Nash: From Harem to Harvard: Cross-Cultural Memoir in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage
Victoria M. Abboud: (Trans)Planting Cedars: Seeking Identity, Nationality, and Culture in the Lebanese Diaspora
Yasmeen Hanoosh: Tomorrow They Write their Story: Chaldeans in America and the Transforming Narrative of Identities
Layla Al Maleh: From Romantic Mystics to Hyphenated Ethnics: Arab-American Writers Negotiating/Shifting Identity
Samaa Abdurraqib: Making It Survive Here and “Dreams of Return”: Community and Identity in the Poetry of Mohja Kahf
Dawn Mirapuri: Meditations on Memory and Belonging: Nada Awar Jarrar’s Somewhere, Home
Notes on Contributors

About the Author

Layla Al Maleh is associate professor of English literature at Kuwait University. She was the first to draw attention to anglophone Arab literature in a doctoral dissertation entitled “The English Novel by Arab Writers” submitted to King’s College, London University as far back as 1980. She has taught at Damascus University, Syria and the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and was a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.