Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism

Cinema Journal, 2015

In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations. Poets, creative writers, artists, scholars, and activists employ a mix of genres to express feminist issues and highlight how Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives simultaneously inhabit multiple, overlapping, and intersecting spaces: within families and communities; in anticolo . . . show more Published by: Syracuse University Press Cover

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Conclusion 68 Muslim (Shia and Sunni and Alawi and Isma'ili), Christian (Catholic and Orthodox, Anglican and Evangelical, and Mainline Protestant), Jewish (Orthodox and conservative and Hraedi and Reform), Druze, Bahai, dual citizens of Israel and twenty two Arab nations, multi and monolingual, progressives and conservatives, Assimilationists and nationalists, cosompolitanists and pluralists, immigrants and fifth generation Americans. (Salaita 1) Arab-American Literature Prior to the Gulf wars and September 11 th Attacks, Arab-American literature remained "less understood," mainly because it was not given much attention in American academic circles (Read 1). Lisa Majaj states that "[although Arab-American literature has been in existence in the U.S. for over a century, it has only recently begun to be recognized as part of the ethnic landscape of literary America" (n.pag.). Similarly, Carol Fadda-Conrey questions the relative absence of Arab-American literary studies from ethnic canon and suggests that Arab-American literature discourse is placed into the state of "discourse invisibility" which, according to Fadda-Conrey, is considered an ethnic marker. She further emphasizes her argument by citing the feminist Joanna Kadi who describes Arab-American authors as "...the most invisible of the invisibles" (qtd in Fadda-Conrey 1). Some scholars have attributed the absence of Arab-American literature within American canonical works to political reasons. Mervat Hatem argues that Arab-American literature has always been shaped by the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and its different wars. During the last sixty years, "overwhelming U.S. support of the Israeli military effort against [Arabs has] galvanized [the Arab Americans]" (Hatem n.pag.). This kind of support to Israel, in fact, might have been one of the reasons that created a

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