Nature in Arab American Literature Majaj, Nye, and Kahf
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7285697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ismet Bujupaj (Fama College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1991-9336 • E-ISSN: 1991-9336 |
| Publisher | European Association for American Studies (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ejas.11130 |
| OpenAlex | W1153202895 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Much critical engagement with works of Arab American literature focuses on cultural identity and political issues, without treating nature in those works. The writings of Lisa Suhair Majaj, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Mohja Kahf, provide rich opportunities to start examining Arab American writings through an ecocritical lens which examines the human relationship to nature, place, and the physical environment. Often, in these works, place is doubled, with the present-day physical environment as well as the place remembered from a past, from which the speaker is separated by trauma or displacement. Nature frequently serves to connect these two places; at other times it serves as a source of spiritual energy that can help the speaker to transcend the rift. The complex treatments of nature and place in these works offer a fluid process that is neither fully separate from cultural politics nor completely defined by it
Aesthetics · American literature · Art · Energy (signal processing · Identity (music · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |