dc.contributor.author
Bosch Vilarrubias, Marta
dc.date.issued
2012-02-17T09:49:05Z
dc.date.issued
2012-02-17T09:49:05Z
dc.identifier
https://hdl.handle.net/2445/22131
dc.description.abstract
This article analyzes three debut novels ¿Alicia Erian's Towelhead (2005), Laila Halaby's West of the Jordan (2003), and Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz (1993)- in order to explore the representation of fatherhood by the Arab diaspora in the United States. To do so, it will draw on Ralph La Rossa's notion of "new father", and on Julie Peteet's and Daniel Monterescu's ideas about Arab masculinity. It will then analyze the main father figures in the novels under the light of these concepts. It will finally conclude that the different existing models of Arab fatherhood move from traditionalism to liberalism, and that allows the possibility of "new fatherhoods" to emerge.
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application/pdf
dc.publisher
GRC Creació i Pensament de les Dones (Universitat de Barcelona) i GRC Cos i Textualitat (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
dc.relation
Reproducció del document publicat a: http://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/lectora/article/view/43319
dc.relation
Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat, 2008, vol. 14, p. 101-112
dc.rights
cc-by-nc-nd (c) Bosch, 2008
dc.rights
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es
dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source
Articles publicats en revistes (Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos)
dc.subject
Literatura nord-americana
dc.subject
Literatura àrab
dc.subject
North American literature
dc.subject
Arabic literatur
dc.title
The representation of fatherhood by the arab diaspora in the united states
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
