Negotiating liminal identities in Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
This paper challenges the thought that the term ‘Muslim woman’ connotes submissive or backward and is in need of rescue by the West through a literary analysis of the work by Mohja Kahf (b.1967), a leading contemporary Arab-American Muslim woman writer. In her novel, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf...
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Main Authors: | Alkarawi, Susan Taha, Bahar, Ida Baizura |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Australian International Academic Centre
2013
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Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27952/1/37952.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27952/ http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/911 |
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