Testimonies of Resistance and Assimilation: A Postcolonial Study in Mohja Kahf's E-mails from Scheherazad | ||
| Al-Ma'mon College Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 27, September 2018, Pages 298-319 | ||
| Author | ||
| Haydar Jabr Koban | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study examines resistance and assimilation as postcolonial modes in Arab-American women's poetry after the 9/11, 2001. Here the intention is to clarify the modes of resistance and assimilation as two important aspects in Mohja Kahf's volume of poetry, E-Mails from Scheherazad (2003); and the forces that formulate and shape these modes, and the extent to which these modes reflect the complexities and difficulties that Arab-Americans face in their daily life in America. Kahf's poetry functions as a testimony that resists and challenges the stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims as terrorist, ignorant, fundamentalist, naïve and others, and the woman as an oppressed, belly-dancer harem; so submissive, passive, and subordinate to the dominant role of man; by engaging Bhabha's concept of the Third Space | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Resistance; testimony; marginalization and third space | ||
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