Abstract
This article examines literatures written largely within the last three years by poets Kazim Ali, Fatimah Asghar, and Tarfia Faizullah. It illustrates how Muslim second-generation immigrant writers construct figurative homelands that reclaim or reject their Western/ancestral identities by interrogating “them” versus “us” binaries and/or crafting notions of the “we” on which they belong. This research is guided by studies on the perceptions and mis-recognitions of Muslims since 11 September 2001 by Sadia Abbas, Naseem L. Aumeerally, and Arjun Appadurai. Overall, it examines the profound impact of 9/11 on Muslim second-generation immigrants’ sense of homeland, belonging, and security in America.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,History,Cultural Studies
Cited by
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