ABSTRACT

Using a theoretical framework located at the intersection of US ethnic studies, transnational studies, and postcolonial studies, Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry maps an interdisciplinary model of critical inquiry to demonstrate the intimate link and multilayered connections between poetry and resistance. In this study of contemporary Arab-American poetry, Sirène Harb analyzes how resistance, defined as the force challenging the dominant, intervenes in ways of rethinking the local and the global vis-à-vis traditional paradigms of time, space, language and value.

chapter |38 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|32 pages

Haunted Spaces

Ghostliness, Loss, and Violence

chapter 2|35 pages

Translating 9/11

Contrapuntalism, Dialogism, and Necropolitics

chapter 4|27 pages

Centrifugal Forces and Articulations of Resistance

The Poetry of June Jordan and Suheir Hammad

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion

chapter |7 pages

Author Biographies