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Preliminary Material -- Anglophone Arab Literature: An Overview /Layla Al Maleh -- Gibran and Orientalism /Waïl S. Hassan -- Strategic Genius, Disidentification, and the Burden of The Prophet in Arab-American Poetry /Richard E. Hishmeh -- The Dialectic of the Nature/Man/God Trilogy of Acceptance and Tolerance in the Works of Amine F. Rihani /Boulos Sarru -- The Last Migration The First Contemporary Example of Lebanese Diasporic Literature /Syrine Hout -- Transnational Diaspora and the Search for Home in Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters /Carol Fadda–Conrey -- The Dynamics of Intercultural Dislocation Hybridity in Rabih Alameddine’s I, The Divine /Cristina Garrigós -- The Semiosis of Food in Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent /Brinda J. Mehta -- How to Be a Successful Double Agent: (Dis)placement as Strategy in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt /Diya M. Abdo -- Women in Exile: The ‘Unhomely’ in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt /Fadia Suyoufie and Lamia Hammad -- 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 /Marta Cariello -- From Harem to Harvard: Cross-Cultural Memoir in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage /Geoffrey P. Nash -- (Trans)Planting Cedars Seeking Identity, Nationality, and Culture in the Lebanese Diaspora /Victoria M. Abboud -- Tomorrow They Write their Story: Chaldeans in America and the Transforming Narrative of Identities /Yasmeen Hanoosh -- From Romantic Mystics to Hyphenated Ethnics: Arab-American Writers Negotiating/Shifting Identities /Layla Al Maleh -- Making It Survive Here and “Dreams of Return”: Community and Identity in the Poetry of Mohja Kahf /Samaa Abdurraqib -- Meditations on Memory and Belonging: Nada Awar Jarrar’s Somewhere, Home /Dawn Mirapuri -- Notes on Contributors. Arab Voices in Diaspora offers a wide-ranging overview and an insightful study of the field of anglophone Arab literature produced across the world. The first of its kind, it chronicles the development of this literature from its inception at the turn of the past century until the post 9/11 era. The book sheds light not only on the historical but also on the cultural and aesthetic value of this literary production, which has so far received little scholarly attention. It also seeks to place anglophone Arab literary works within the larger nomenclature of postcolonial, emerging, and ethnic literature, as it finds that the authors are haunted by the same ‘hybrid’, ‘exilic’, and ‘diasporic’ questions that have dogged their fellow postcolonialists. Issues of belonging, loyalty, and affinity are recognized and dealt with in the various essays, as are the various concerns involved in cultural and relational identification. The contributors to this volume come from different national backgrounds and share in examining the nuances of this emerging literature. Authors discussed include Elmaz Abinader, Diana Abu-Jaber, Leila Aboulela, Leila Ahmed, Rabih Alameddine, Edward Atiyah, Shaw Dallal, Ibrahim Fawal, Fadia Faqir, Khalil Gibran, Suheir Hammad, Loubna Haikal, Nada Awar Jarrar, Jad El Hage, Lawrence Joseph, Mohja Kahf, Jamal Mahjoub, Hisham Matar, Dunya Mikhail, Samia Serageldine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ameen Rihani, Mona Simpson, Ahdaf Soueif, and Cecile Yazbak. Contributors: Victoria M. Abboud, Diya M. Abdo, Samaa Abdurraqib, Marta Cariello, Carol Fadda–Conrey, Cristina Garrigós, Lamia Hammad, Yasmeen Hanoosh, Waïl S. Hassan, Richard E. Hishmeh, Syrine Hout, Layla Al Maleh, Brinda J. Mehta, Dawn Mirapuri, Geoffrey P. Nash, Boulus Sarru, Fadia Fayez Suyoufie
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