Counter Fictions and Imaginary Topographies

Auto/Biographical Methodologies and the Construction of Group Knowledge in Evelyn Shakir’s Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States

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ID6147531
AuthorsChristina Larose (University of Michigan, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume12
Issue2-3
Pages237-267
Publication date2014-10-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHawwa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2078 • E-ISSN: 1569-2086
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/15692086-12341265
OpenAlexW1977639940
LanguageEN
References cited24

In this contribution, I identify two of Evelyn Shakir’s methodological contributions in Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States : counter fictions and imaginary topographies. First, I demonstrate how Shakir’s counter fictions complicate Nancy Hartsock’s (1997) argument that group knowledge is locatable in time, space and particular cultures. Second, I explore how Shakir’s imaginary topographies which are depicted through an autobiographical narrative voice—an intergenerational interlocutor—document movements between multiple voices and various actual and imagined locations. Shakir’s methodologies make important contributions to our understanding of Arab women’s diasporic experiences, feminist standpoint theory and women of color feminisms. Moreover, Shakir’s multivocal interdisciplinary narratives establish methodological parameters for the emerging field of Arab American Women’s Studies

Argument (complex analysis · Art · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society

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