Resistance of Arab-American. Mohja Kahf's poems "E-mails from Scheherazade" as a case study

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Resistance of Arab-American. Mohja Kahf's poems "E-mails from Scheherazade" as a case study is written by Adil Ouatat and published by GRIN Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3346794555 (ISBN 10) and 9783346794550 (ISBN 13).

Essay from the year 2023 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, , language: English, abstract: This paper examines how the contemporary Arab-American poet Mohja Kahf challenges the western and patriarchal interpretations of some Islamic cultural symbols like "Hijab" (the veil). In poems like "Descent in JFK", "Hijab Scene # 7", and "Thawrah Des Odalisques at the Matisse Retrospective", Mohja Kahf offers an interesting counterpoint to challenge hegemonic narratives about Arab-American women rooted in the nineteenth century Orientalist discourse, and foregrounds the paradoxical experience of what it means to be a veiled Arab-American Muslim woman in a non-Muslim country. While this paper focuses on Kahf's use of poetry as a form of resistance, it also rethinks the contemporary history of Arab-American women's stereotypic repertoire.