The Politics and Aesthetics of Storytelling in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent: A Strategic Implementation of an Old Folkloric Arab Tradition
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...
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| Language: | English |
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New Bulgarian University
2020-06-01
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| Series: | English Studies at NBU |
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| Online Access: | https://esnbu.org/data/files/2020/esnbu.20.1.6.pdf |