New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States

Therí A. Pickens discusses a range of literary, cultural, and archival material where narratives emphasize embodied experience to examine how these experiences constitute Arab Americans and African Americans as social and political subjects. Narrating Black and Arab Bodies in the Contemporary United States participates in a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation about cross-ethnic studies, American literature, and Arab American literature.

Author: Therí a. Pickens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07/14/2015
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780415749046

About the Author

Therí A. Pickens is an Assistant Professor of English at Bates College. Her research focuses on Arab American and African American literatures and cultures, Disability Studies, philosophy, and literary theory. Her critical work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Al-Jadid, Journal of Canadian Literature, Al-Raida, and, the ground-breaking collection, Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions.