%0 Journal Article
%T Occidentalism as a Strategy for Self-exclusion and Recognition in Mohja Kahf¡¯s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
%A Ishak Berrebbah
%J -
%D 2019
%X Arab American women¡¯s literature has emerged noticeably in the early years of the 21st century. The social and political atmosphere of post 9/11 America encouraged the growth of such literature and brought it to international attention. This diasporic literature is imbued with the discourse of Occidentalism; this not only creates a set of counter-stereotypes and representations to challenge Orientalism and write back to Orientalists, but it also works as a strategy for self-exclusion¡ªby which Arab Americans exclude themselves from wider US society¡ªand paves the way to selfrealization. Taking Mohja Kahf¡¯s novel The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) as a sample of Arab American literature, this paper examines the extent to which Arab American characters including T¨¦ta, Wajdy, and Khadra represent and identify white Americans from an Occidentalist point of view to exclude themselves from wider American society, and promote their self-realization and recognition. The arguments and analysis in this paper are outlined within a social identity theoretical framework
%K Diaspora
%K d£¿£¿lama
%K tan£¿ma
%K temsil
%K stereotip
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/cankujhss/issue/46694/585511