مجلة المقال
Volume 1, Numéro 2, Pages 21-38
2015-12-27
“reclaiming The Arab American Identity Through Literature: The Example Of Naomi Shihab Nye”
Authors : Toufik Lachouri .
Abstract
The presence of different ethnic groups is what made America, culturally, a very diverse place. It is the only country where we can find Arabs, Italians, Russians, Japanese and French eating at the same Restaurant, but multiculturalism can only strengthen America if the members of different cultural groups are aware of who they are and the importance of their culture. Arabs started to face an identity crisis since 9/11. The latter was influenced by the difference between how they perceive themselves and how they are perceived by the others. This article will shed the light on the importance of an Arab identity in a multicultural place and it will use the American-Palestinian poet Naomi Shihab Nye as an example. We aim to prove that the Arab identity strengthens America through the analysis of some poems of Shihab Nye. We will try to see how this poet used her pen to strengthen and celebrate the Arab identity in America.
Keywords
“Reclaiming -Identity-
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