Ambreen Hai
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ambreen Hai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ambreen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hai |
| SIGNATURE | HAI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Laughing with an Iranian American Woman
This essay critically analyzes Firoozeh Dumas's humorous memoirs and situates them in the multiple contexts of post-9/11 Muslim American responses to Islamophobia, women's humor, and Iranian American women's life writing. Drawing on philosophical, feminist, ethnic, and contemporary scientific theories of humor and the methods of literary criticism, the author argues that Dumas employs the beneficial and inclusive (not malign and exclusive) positi…
No One in the House Knew Her Name”
The invisibility and precarity of domestic servants in South Asia remains a pervasive societal and political problem, not often addressed in South Asian literary studies. This essay analyses four short stories by R. K. Narayan that center on marginal, subaltern servant figures, male and female, young and old. It makes two related arguments: one, that Narayan uses the short story form (as opposed to the novel) to give unusual compassionate attenti…
Departures from Karachi Airport
Prefatory Note: This essay revisits an experience—my encounter with an airport border control official as I was leaving Pakistan—that occurred in October 2000. At first this otherwise trivial incident seemed to me illustrative of several postcolonial and feminist concerns such as the regulation of national and gender identities at sites of border crossing or the patriarchal oppressiveness of state power and practices. But as I retold the story I …
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Departures from Karachi Airport
Prefatory Note: This essay revisits an experience—my encounter with an airport border control official as I was leaving Pakistan—that occurred in October 2000. At first this otherwise trivial incident seemed to me illustrative of several postcolonial and feminist concerns such as the regulation of national and gender identities at sites of border crossing or the patriarchal oppressiveness of state power and practices. But as I retold the story I …
Laughing with an Iranian American Woman
This essay critically analyzes Firoozeh Dumas's humorous memoirs and situates them in the multiple contexts of post-9/11 Muslim American responses to Islamophobia, women's humor, and Iranian American women's life writing. Drawing on philosophical, feminist, ethnic, and contemporary scientific theories of humor and the methods of literary criticism, the author argues that Dumas employs the beneficial and inclusive (not malign and exclusive) positi…
No One in the House Knew Her Name”
The invisibility and precarity of domestic servants in South Asia remains a pervasive societal and political problem, not often addressed in South Asian literary studies. This essay analyses four short stories by R. K. Narayan that center on marginal, subaltern servant figures, male and female, young and old. It makes two related arguments: one, that Narayan uses the short story form (as opposed to the novel) to give unusual compassionate attenti…
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