TY - JOUR
T1 - The Politics and Aesthetics of Storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber’s "Crescent": A Strategic Implementation of an Old Folkloric Arab Tradition
AU - Berrebbah, Ishak
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PY - 2020/6/30
Y1 - 2020/6/30
N2 - This paper discusses the politics and multi-functionality of storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber's novel Crescent (2003). I argue that the strategic use of storytelling places Crescent as a complex hybrid text that projects the nature, and development, of Arab American literature in the contemporary era. In addition to having the practice of storytelling as an apparatus to project identity in Crescent, Abu-Jaber re-appropriates its empowered status in Arab culture as well as politicizes its image in the mind of her readers. Besides employing critical and analytical approaches to the novel, this paper relies on arguments and perspectives of prominent postcolonial and literary critics and theorists such as Edward Said, Suzanne Keen, Walter Benjamin, and Somaya Sami Sabry, to name a few.
AB - This paper discusses the politics and multi-functionality of storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber's novel Crescent (2003). I argue that the strategic use of storytelling places Crescent as a complex hybrid text that projects the nature, and development, of Arab American literature in the contemporary era. In addition to having the practice of storytelling as an apparatus to project identity in Crescent, Abu-Jaber re-appropriates its empowered status in Arab culture as well as politicizes its image in the mind of her readers. Besides employing critical and analytical approaches to the novel, this paper relies on arguments and perspectives of prominent postcolonial and literary critics and theorists such as Edward Said, Suzanne Keen, Walter Benjamin, and Somaya Sami Sabry, to name a few.
UR - https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.20.1.6
U2 - 10.33919/esnbu.20.1.6
DO - 10.33919/esnbu.20.1.6
M3 - Article
SN - 2367-8704
VL - 6
SP - 127
EP - 144
JO - English Studies at NBU
JF - English Studies at NBU
IS - 1
ER -