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Sustainable diplomacy: ecology, religion, and ethics in Muslim-Christian relations
In: Culture and religion in international relations
Accelerated aging: animal models - Durable power of attorney
In: Encyclopedia of aging Vol. 1
Ear - Kin
In: Encyclopedia of aging Vol. 2
Language about aging - Psychotherapy
In: Encyclopedia of aging Vol. 3
Qualitative research - Yeast. Index
In: Encyclopedia of aging Vol. 4
The exclusive economic zone in international law
In: Oxford monographs in international law 1
The labor movement in post-war France
In: Social and economic studies of post-war France, prepared under the auspices of Columbia university, Council for research in the social sciences, ed. by C. J. H. Hayes... vol. IV
Our Fight Has Just Begun: Hate Crimes and Justice in Native America
In: American Indian culture and research journal: AICRJ, Band 47, Heft 1
Book review
Metafiction Meets Migration: Art From the Archives in Rabee Jaber's Amerika
In: Mashriq & Mahjar: journal of Middle East and North African migration studies, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 109-132
ISSN: 2169-4435
The subject of this article is Rabee Jaber's novel Amerika (2009) recounting the migration of a group of Syro-Lebanese to the United States on the eve of the First World War. It demonstrates how metafictional techniques—ironic narrator figures, flashbacks, dream-like scenes—allow Jaber to address the fine, yet shifting, line between fiction and history in the accounts of Arab migrations to the Americas. The article explores the creative rewriting of an essential intertext for Jaber, Kafka's Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared) and asserts that the novel's reflective uncertainty pervades both the way that a historical past can be represented and the way that the past is presented to a contemporary Lebanese audience. The article concludes by suggesting that the contrast between the two main characters, Martā Ḥaddād and Alī Jābir, is not only indicative of distinct kinds of migration, but, more abstractly, points to contrasting ideas about reading and writing the past.
In Response to the January 2017 Commentary, "Political Social Work: History, Forms, and Opportunities for Innovation"
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Band 62, Heft 4, S. 376-377
ISSN: 1545-6846