Negotiating liminal identities in Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

• Main Authors: Alkarawi, Susan Taha, Bahar, Ida Baizura
• 格式: Article
• 语言: English
• 出版: Australian International Academic Centre 2013
• 在线阅读: 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

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...