Yomna Saber
Biographic Data
| ID | 5433973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yomna Saber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yomna |
| FAMILY NAME | Saber |
| SIGNATURE | SABER Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Qatar University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7211-2613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“You are in the Dark”
Black experimentalism probes different historical experiences and exclusive literary legacies that document a past marred by racism, injustice, humiliation, and exclusion. In the twenty-first century, black experimentalists face new challenges as they confront new means of racist aggression, unfair discrimination, and social rejection. This paper examines Jamaican American poet Claudia Rankine’s cross-genre Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), whic…
Remembering and forgetting in Sara Collins’ The confessions of Frannie Langton
Set in Jamaica and London in the 1820s, Sara Collins’ debut novel The confessions of Frannie Langton (2019) is a neo-slave historical novel par excellence. In it, Collins shapes and reshapes several subgenres of historical fiction, such as gothic fiction, historical romance, and historical mystery. Facing a trial based on the accusation of killing her master and mistress, Frannie Langton narrates her life story in the form of confessions to her l…
My mother must have been other than woman” 1
The mother-daughter dyad is far from simple. Adrienne Rich examines it within the parameters of matrophobia, which is not fearing the mother but fearing to become like her. In Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde fluctuates between the urge to identify with her mother and the desire to break free. This essay examines Lorde's ambivalent bond with her mother from the perspective of pre-Oedipal attachment theory and matrophobia
Blurring the Contours of Memory in June Jordan’s Soldier
Located at the crossroads of fact and fiction and relying on memory, autobiography defies easy categorization. This paper examines June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (2000). Jordan situates herself vis-à-vis her parents. The paper is trying to answer the questions: is Jordan transferring her identity through an act of literary creation or is she recreating herself? What is the role of memory? What is the impact of trauma? Does Jordan make …
The Conjure Woman’s Poetics of Poisoning in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day
This article examines the poetics of poisoning in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. The article traces the depiction of the conjure woman in novels written by African American female novelists in the 1980s, drawing upon the figure’s historical implications in the black canon. Although Naylor’s novel introduces a number of conjure women, this article shifts the focus from the titular protagonist, Mama Day, to the other conjurer, Ruby, who casts a poisonou…
Reconceptualizing the Archetypal Trickster in Audre Lorde's Zami
Carl Jung categorizes the trickster as a psychological archetype and sets certain parameters for it. This article examines Audre Lorde's trickster Afrekete in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) and poses the question of how typically archetypal a Black, female, lesbian trickster can be. Lorde occupies an idiosyncratic position in the canon in terms of race, gender, and sexual orientation. She bestows new qualities on her trickster coming from…
Lorraine Hansberry
The 1950s was a vibrant decade for African American writers, among whom the name of Lorraine Hansberry will always be remembered. In his evaluation of the American theater in the twentieth century
Reconceptualizing the Archetypal Trickster in Audre Lorde's Zami
Carl Jung categorizes the trickster as a psychological archetype and sets certain parameters for it. This article examines Audre Lorde's trickster Afrekete in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) and poses the question of how typically archetypal a Black, female, lesbian trickster can be. Lorde occupies an idiosyncratic position in the canon in terms of race, gender, and sexual orientation. She bestows new qualities on her trickster coming from…
Lorraine Hansberry
The 1950s was a vibrant decade for African American writers, among whom the name of Lorraine Hansberry will always be remembered. In his evaluation of the American theater in the twentieth century
Lorraine Hansberry
The 1950s was a vibrant decade for African American writers, among whom the name of Lorraine Hansberry will always be remembered. In his evaluation of the American theater in the twentieth century
Reconceptualizing the Archetypal Trickster in Audre Lorde's Zami
Carl Jung categorizes the trickster as a psychological archetype and sets certain parameters for it. This article examines Audre Lorde's trickster Afrekete in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) and poses the question of how typically archetypal a Black, female, lesbian trickster can be. Lorde occupies an idiosyncratic position in the canon in terms of race, gender, and sexual orientation. She bestows new qualities on her trickster coming from…
The Conjure Woman’s Poetics of Poisoning in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day
This article examines the poetics of poisoning in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. The article traces the depiction of the conjure woman in novels written by African American female novelists in the 1980s, drawing upon the figure’s historical implications in the black canon. Although Naylor’s novel introduces a number of conjure women, this article shifts the focus from the titular protagonist, Mama Day, to the other conjurer, Ruby, who casts a poisonou…
Blurring the Contours of Memory in June Jordan’s Soldier
Located at the crossroads of fact and fiction and relying on memory, autobiography defies easy categorization. This paper examines June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (2000). Jordan situates herself vis-à-vis her parents. The paper is trying to answer the questions: is Jordan transferring her identity through an act of literary creation or is she recreating herself? What is the role of memory? What is the impact of trauma? Does Jordan make …
My mother must have been other than woman” 1
The mother-daughter dyad is far from simple. Adrienne Rich examines it within the parameters of matrophobia, which is not fearing the mother but fearing to become like her. In Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde fluctuates between the urge to identify with her mother and the desire to break free. This essay examines Lorde's ambivalent bond with her mother from the perspective of pre-Oedipal attachment theory and matrophobia
Remembering and forgetting in Sara Collins’ The confessions of Frannie Langton
Set in Jamaica and London in the 1820s, Sara Collins’ debut novel The confessions of Frannie Langton (2019) is a neo-slave historical novel par excellence. In it, Collins shapes and reshapes several subgenres of historical fiction, such as gothic fiction, historical romance, and historical mystery. Facing a trial based on the accusation of killing her master and mistress, Frannie Langton narrates her life story in the form of confessions to her l…
“You are in the Dark”
Black experimentalism probes different historical experiences and exclusive literary legacies that document a past marred by racism, injustice, humiliation, and exclusion. In the twenty-first century, black experimentalists face new challenges as they confront new means of racist aggression, unfair discrimination, and social rejection. This paper examines Jamaican American poet Claudia Rankine’s cross-genre Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), whic…
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