Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging

The Last Couple Of Decades Have Witnessed A Flourishing Of Arab-american Literature Across Multiple Genres. Yet, Increased Interest In This Literature Is Ironically Paralleled By A Prevalent Bias Against Arabs And Muslims That Portrays Their Long Presence In The Us As A Recent And Unwelcome Phenomenon. Spanning The 1990s To The Present, Carol Fadda-conrey Takes In The Sweep Of Literary And Cultural Texts By Arab-american Writers In Order To Understand The Ways In Which Their Depictions Of Arab Homelands, Whether Actual Or Imagined, Play A Crucial Role In Shaping Cultural Articulations Of Us Ci.