Coming of Age in the Solitude of the Lost Land: Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home
This contribution analyzes Palestinian-American Randa Jarrar’s semi-autobiographical novel A Map of Home (2008). The novel is read through various, overlapping lenses: the use of the semi-autobiographical form and the related challenge, brought about by the woman migrant writer, to the genre itself...
| Published in: | Hawwa |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Hawwa
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| Further subjects: | B
Palestine
exile
agency
maps
counter-hegemony
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This contribution analyzes Palestinian-American Randa Jarrar’s semi-autobiographical novel A Map of Home (2008). The novel is read through various, overlapping lenses: the use of the semi-autobiographical form and the related challenge, brought about by the woman migrant writer, to the genre itself of autobiography and its relevance to individual and collective identity formation, the deconstruction of fixed, universal subjectivity and the challenge that exile narratives bring to the narration of nations, the specific positionality of the author that brings into play not only Arab and Arab-American identity construction but more specifically the narration of the Palestinian people. Finally, a Map of Home appears as a site for Jarrar to produce a specific articulation of an Arab, Arab-American and Palestinian self through a female genealogy of agency. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-2086 |
| Contains: | In: Hawwa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341266 |