Łobodziec, Agnieszka - red. nauk. ; Filipczak, Iwona - red. nauk.
Title: Group publication title: Subject and Keywords:Kahf, Mohja (1967- ) ; Arab-American literature ; hybridity ; post-colonial literature ; moslem women writers
Abstract:This paper attempts to investigate the hybrid imagination in selected works by Mohja Kahf, a Syrian-American poet (born 1967, Damascus, Syria) . The term hybrid imagination is coined by the researcher drawing on both 18th century Romanticism and the contemporary post-colonial theory. ; Kahf`s attempts at cultural reconciliation and human understanding are fraught with both pains and pleasures . Yet her ability to foster her hybrid imagination seems to allow her to choose a ?Third Space? between two roads . The road not taken by Kahf is the essentialist position of identity which is either ?purely Arab? or ?entirely and exclusively American?. ; Her novel and her poetry, as this paper attempts to investigate, seem to open ?a Third Space? for both the poet and her readers, and to create a Utopia which poetry can sanction and publicize . Drawing on Homi Bhabha`s theory of hybridity, and on earlier definitions of the imagination by the Romantics, the paper will attempt to explore Kahf`s mechanisms (conscious or otherwise) which help open up and maximize such third space .
Publisher:Zielona Góra: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego
Date: Resource Type: Format: DOI: Pages: Source:Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego: Seria Scripta Humana, tom 7
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