Ambivalent Unhomely Belongings of the Arab American Diaspora in Abu-Jaber’s “My Elizabeth” and Ward’s “How We Are Bound”

The article explores the postcolonial concepts of ambivalence and unhomeliness in the diasporic context of Arab Americans. The contradictions involved in immigrants’ attempts to adapt within the hosting culture are critically studied and analyzed in two Arab American short stories: “How We Are Bound...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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