Giving Voice at a Price
Imagining The Arab World in the Work of Elizabeth Laird
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11660964 |
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| Authors | Muhammad Masud (corresponding author), Muhammad Masud Muhammad Masud |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arab Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0271-3519 • E-ISSN: 2043-6920 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/arabstudquar.38.3.0601 |
| OpenAlex | W2508155998 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article examines two of Elizabeth Laird's young adult novels that are set in the Arab world: A Little Piece of Ground and Oranges in No Man's Land. It shows that despite occasionally relying on some of the stereotypical themes and subjects in books about the Arab world, Laird's novels manage to interrogate relevant and pressing issues about the region, including the question of Palestine. The article further surveys a number of children's and young adult books about the Arab world that are written by western authors. It explores how these texts rely on stereotypical constructions that cast the region as a place of ultimate violence, poverty, religious oppression, and patriarchal tyranny. The article concludes with highlighting the urgency to disrupt these generalizations, diversify thematic foci, and present readers with heterogeneous Arab characters and settings
Ancient history · Oppression · Palestine · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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