Michelle Hartman. Breaking Broken English: Black-Arab Literary Solidarities and the Politics of Language.

Abstract

While Arab American literary production began as soon as Arab immigrants arrived in the U.S., Arab American literary criticism has only recently begun to take shape as a distinct discursive field. Within the last two decades full monographs have been devoted to the topic, including Wail S. Hassan’s Immigrant Narratives (2014) and Carol Fadda’s Contemporary Arab American Literature (2014). Steven Salaita’s Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader’s Guide (2011) is one of the earliest books of cr...