E-mails from Scheherazad
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- Synopsis
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The author establishes herself as a new voice in the tradition of ethnic American poets, blending the experiences of recent Arab-American immigrants into contemporary American scenery.
In her poems, Muslim ritual and Qur'anic vocabulary move in next door to the idiom of suburban Americana, and the legendary Scheherazad of the Thousand and One Nights shows up in New Jersey, recast as a sophisticated postcolonial feminist. She carefully crafted poems do not speak only to important issues of ethnicity, gender, and religious diversity in America, but also to universal human themes of family and kinship, friendship, and the search for a place to pray. She chronicles the specific griefs and pleasures of the immigrant and writes an amulet for womanly power in the face of the world's terrors.
Her poetic energy is provocative and sassy, punctuated now and then with a darker poem of elegiac sadness or refined rage.
- Copyright:
- 2003
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 117 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780813026213
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- Date of Addition:
- 02/07/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Mohja Kahf
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.