"Transgressing Cultural Borders of Identity in Mohja Kahf's Poetry: Ste" by Aya ElBably
 

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

Fall 10-24-2016

Abstract

Arab American literature and in specific poetry has a century-long tradition of literary production, as it extends its roots to the early Mahjar poets. Through her poetry collection, Emails from Scheherazad (2003), contemporary Arab American Muslim writer and feminist scholar Mohja Kahf tackles the question of identity. Kahf’s poetry examines the ‘pain and possibility’ of a composite identity that is being affected by stereotyping, ethnicity and hybridity.

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