Ayman Abu-Shomar
Biographic Data
| ID | 929578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayman Abu-Shomar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayman |
| FAMILY NAME | Abu-Shomar |
| SIGNATURE | ABU-SHOMAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jordan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0916-6819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Where ‘disappointed hope’ and ‘death life’ converge
This article argues that Atticus Lish’s Preparation for the Next Life reimagines the contemporary US immigrant novel by staging undocumented life at the intersection of structural violence and ‘disappointed’ hope. Drawing on Ernst Bloch’s concept of hope as an anticipatory ‘Not-Yet’ shadowed by defeat and Homi Bhabha’s migration-centred idea of ‘death-life’, it interprets Zou Lei’s trajectory as an embodied figuration of survival lived in proximi…
Palestinian blue humanism
This article advances an ecocritical and ethical interpretation of Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water through postcolonial ecocriticism, environmental justice, and the blue humanities. It contends that the novel depicts Gaza not just as a besieged territory but as a deliberately damaged ecological world, where settler-colonial dominance unfolds through the gradual and dramatic destruction of land, sea, infrastructure, and more-than-h…
Precarity and the making of Trumpism
Decolonizing the Blue Humanities
Oceanic and riverine spaces, represented by the River Suqreir and the Gaza Sea in Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water , symbolize identity formation, life, freedom, and the Palestinian connection to the homeland. However, these waterscapes are marred by the violence of occupation, turning these aquatic areas into reminders of death, loss, and trauma. This article examines Abulhawa’s creative renditions of the River Suqreir and the Gaz…
“Life in death”
This article examines the poetics of death in the Iraqi American writer Sinan Antoon’s novel The Corpse Washer. The novel depicts death as a leitmotif while emphasizing the perils of wars and violence on the Iraqi people. Throughout the novel, death is omnipresent, looming over the lives of the characters, particularly the protagonist Jawad who endures nightmares, hallucinations, and split personality. These conditions are engendered by prolonged…
Cross-cultural Romance
The current global landscape is characterised by transnationalism and diaspora, concepts that wield tools such as dialogism, heteroglossia, and the ““Unfinalisability”” of the self. In response to these transformative forces, a significant cohort of contemporary Arab Anglophone writers has embraced a dialogic paradigm. This article explores the artistic portrayal of Arab-Western relations through the literary works of two Arab Anglophone women wr…
The empire writes back
The article explores the aesthetic and stylistic strategies by which Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) decolonises Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s chronicle La Relación (1542) and hence writes back to the Spanish colonialism in the sixteenth century. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the doomed Panfilo de Narváez expedition to the New World centres on ‘peaceful conversion’, that is, the pacification of the natives so the Spanish conquistadors need …
‘We have much identity’
Since the second half of the 20th century, the notions of hybrid, hyphenated and transcultural identity have found urgent currency for scholars interested in the Arab Anglophone literary movement. Several books and anthologies have situated Arab Anglophone writers within diaspora and multicultural studies. In particular, the fascination of Western academia has augmented comfortable diffusion and propagation of writers and critics endorsing these …
Unreconciled Strivings of ‘Exilic Consciousness’
This article discusses how Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin, its thematic concerns and aesthetics, are developed in tandem with the discourse of diaspora and exilic consciousness leading to critical praxis. It traces the interactions between exilic consciousness and identity construction in the context of resistance literature. These interactions exhibit the author's ability to be inside and outside discourses of struggle producing a model in w…
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Unreconciled Strivings of ‘Exilic Consciousness’
This article discusses how Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin, its thematic concerns and aesthetics, are developed in tandem with the discourse of diaspora and exilic consciousness leading to critical praxis. It traces the interactions between exilic consciousness and identity construction in the context of resistance literature. These interactions exhibit the author's ability to be inside and outside discourses of struggle producing a model in w…
‘We have much identity’
Since the second half of the 20th century, the notions of hybrid, hyphenated and transcultural identity have found urgent currency for scholars interested in the Arab Anglophone literary movement. Several books and anthologies have situated Arab Anglophone writers within diaspora and multicultural studies. In particular, the fascination of Western academia has augmented comfortable diffusion and propagation of writers and critics endorsing these …
“Life in death”
This article examines the poetics of death in the Iraqi American writer Sinan Antoon’s novel The Corpse Washer. The novel depicts death as a leitmotif while emphasizing the perils of wars and violence on the Iraqi people. Throughout the novel, death is omnipresent, looming over the lives of the characters, particularly the protagonist Jawad who endures nightmares, hallucinations, and split personality. These conditions are engendered by prolonged…
Cross-cultural Romance
The current global landscape is characterised by transnationalism and diaspora, concepts that wield tools such as dialogism, heteroglossia, and the ““Unfinalisability”” of the self. In response to these transformative forces, a significant cohort of contemporary Arab Anglophone writers has embraced a dialogic paradigm. This article explores the artistic portrayal of Arab-Western relations through the literary works of two Arab Anglophone women wr…
The empire writes back
The article explores the aesthetic and stylistic strategies by which Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) decolonises Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s chronicle La Relación (1542) and hence writes back to the Spanish colonialism in the sixteenth century. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the doomed Panfilo de Narváez expedition to the New World centres on ‘peaceful conversion’, that is, the pacification of the natives so the Spanish conquistadors need …
Where ‘disappointed hope’ and ‘death life’ converge
This article argues that Atticus Lish’s Preparation for the Next Life reimagines the contemporary US immigrant novel by staging undocumented life at the intersection of structural violence and ‘disappointed’ hope. Drawing on Ernst Bloch’s concept of hope as an anticipatory ‘Not-Yet’ shadowed by defeat and Homi Bhabha’s migration-centred idea of ‘death-life’, it interprets Zou Lei’s trajectory as an embodied figuration of survival lived in proximi…
Palestinian blue humanism
This article advances an ecocritical and ethical interpretation of Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water through postcolonial ecocriticism, environmental justice, and the blue humanities. It contends that the novel depicts Gaza not just as a besieged territory but as a deliberately damaged ecological world, where settler-colonial dominance unfolds through the gradual and dramatic destruction of land, sea, infrastructure, and more-than-h…
Precarity and the making of Trumpism
Decolonizing the Blue Humanities
Oceanic and riverine spaces, represented by the River Suqreir and the Gaza Sea in Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water , symbolize identity formation, life, freedom, and the Palestinian connection to the homeland. However, these waterscapes are marred by the violence of occupation, turning these aquatic areas into reminders of death, loss, and trauma. This article examines Abulhawa’s creative renditions of the River Suqreir and the Gaz…
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