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This book, on Postmodernist Arab American literature, offers comparative readings informed by theories and approaches by Foucault, Gramsci, Baudrillard, Said, Gilbert and Gubar, Lyotard, Genette, Deleuze and Guttari, Hutcheon, as well as Saldivar, Villa and Anzaldua. Living Theory: A Comparative Reading of Feminist-Postcolonial Resonances in Leila Ahmeds A Border Passage (1999) and Postmodernist Reflections in Ihab Hassans Out of Egypt (1986), studies the two autobiographies as an embodiment and reflection of critical and literary theory. The Text and the World: Foucauldian and Gramscian Resonances in Historiographic Metafictional Prison Narratives, offers a comparative reading of Sinan Antoons Ijaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody and the Egyptian Nawal El Saadawis Memoirs from the Womans Prison. The Arabian Nights as a Postmodern Arab American Counternarrative, offers a comparative reading of Rhizome, Thick Description and Minority Discourse in Jack Marshalls The Arabian Nights (1986) and Moha Kahfs E-Mails from Sheherazad (2003). Technique as Culture in Postmodern Ethnic American novel, offers a feminist cultural reading of Barrio-Logos of the Nueva Mestiza in Sandra Cisneros Caramelo and Diana Abu-Jabers Crescent, reading Arab American borderland novel genre within the discursive framework of Chicana critical and cultural theory. The hermeneutical counternarrative offered by the above writers is a very practical and reflexive one that is told in an exaggeratedly rhetorical or oratorical manner, even when politics, history, dictatorship, exile and imperialism are always lurking at the background. With their nomadic body without organs, Arab American writers have voiced and contextualized their minority discourse. This has been mainly done through technique, acting as culture and embodying the rhizome troupe, elucidating the assemblage of nomadic identities in constant formation and flux.
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