Mirroring Hybridity: The use of Arab Folk Tradition in Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land and Alia Yunis's The Night Counter.
This article explores the way in which Laila Halaby in Once in a Promised Land and Alia Yunis in The Night Counter utilize the Arab folk tradition in novels on Arab and Muslim American experience to counter the dominant narrative that simultaneously erases their extensive history in the United State...
| Publicado en: | Arab Studies Quarterly Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 251 - 272 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Pluto Journals
Fall2020
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