Yasemin Mohammad
Biographic Data
| ID | 5447807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasemin Mohammad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasemin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohammad |
| SIGNATURE | MOHAMMAD Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Iowa, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Germany
This chapter focuses on the development of the Arab German novel. Arab writers came to Germany primarily as students and political exiles and became well known in the country in the 1980s. In the beginning, most of them engaged with the thematics of immigration and cultural diversity and encountered prejudice in the reception of their works, as had Turkish writers. The work of the pioneers of Arab German literature was also categorized under the …
Reconfiguring European history and cultural memory in Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns
This article focuses on British-Sudanese writer Jamal Mahjoub’s novel Travelling with Djinns (2003). I argue that the novel attempts to reconfigure European history and cultural memory through a transnational, exilic perspective by exploring the British-Sudanese protagonist Yasin Zahir and his son Leo’s road trip through contemporary Europe. Traveling enables Yasin to challenge official historical accounts, and envision cultural memory as fluid a…
Reconfiguring European history and cultural memory in Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns
This article focuses on British-Sudanese writer Jamal Mahjoub’s novel Travelling with Djinns (2003). I argue that the novel attempts to reconfigure European history and cultural memory through a transnational, exilic perspective by exploring the British-Sudanese protagonist Yasin Zahir and his son Leo’s road trip through contemporary Europe. Traveling enables Yasin to challenge official historical accounts, and envision cultural memory as fluid a…
Reconfiguring European history and cultural memory in Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns
This article focuses on British-Sudanese writer Jamal Mahjoub’s novel Travelling with Djinns (2003). I argue that the novel attempts to reconfigure European history and cultural memory through a transnational, exilic perspective by exploring the British-Sudanese protagonist Yasin Zahir and his son Leo’s road trip through contemporary Europe. Traveling enables Yasin to challenge official historical accounts, and envision cultural memory as fluid a…
Germany
This chapter focuses on the development of the Arab German novel. Arab writers came to Germany primarily as students and political exiles and became well known in the country in the 1980s. In the beginning, most of them engaged with the thematics of immigration and cultural diversity and encountered prejudice in the reception of their works, as had Turkish writers. The work of the pioneers of Arab German literature was also categorized under the …
History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (1 work) · Central European Literary Studies (1 work) · Cultural identity (1 work) · Cultural memory (1 work) · Diversity (politics) (1 work)