Excavating Mashriqi Roots in the Mahjar: Agriculture and Assimilation in Raduan Nassar's Lavoura arcaica
First- and second-generation Levantine authors in Brazil have turned to the novel as a means of both excavating ancient Mashriqi roots and negotiating new Mahjari identities. Plantations, farms, and other agrarian spaces have typically played an important role in their literary negotiations of dif...
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North Carolina State University, Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
2021-02-01
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First- and second-generation Levantine authors in Brazil have turned to the novel as a means of both excavating ancient Mashriqi roots and negotiating new Mahjari identities. Plantations, farms, and other agrarian spaces have typically played an important role in their literary negotiations of different migrant identities, especially in rooting migrants onto new landscapes. In Lavoura arcaica (Ancient Tillage), Raduan Nassar transforms the land into a troubled site of identity contestation and failed assimilation, questioning the viability of earlier literary groundings of Levantine migrants in Brazil.
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| spelling | doaj.art-0466fb32f78944049a88ec016c80d09e2022-12-22T00:29:28ZengNorth Carolina State University, Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora StudiesMashriq & Mahjar2169-44352021-02-012210.24847/22i2014.38Excavating Mashriqi Roots in the Mahjar: Agriculture and Assimilation in Raduan Nassar's Lavoura arcaicaSilvia C. Ferreira First- and second-generation Levantine authors in Brazil have turned to the novel as a means of both excavating ancient Mashriqi roots and negotiating new Mahjari identities. Plantations, farms, and other agrarian spaces have typically played an important role in their literary negotiations of different migrant identities, especially in rooting migrants onto new landscapes. In Lavoura arcaica (Ancient Tillage), Raduan Nassar transforms the land into a troubled site of identity contestation and failed assimilation, questioning the viability of earlier literary groundings of Levantine migrants in Brazil. https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/article/view/38LevantineSouthern MahjarBrazilSouthern Mahjar literatureauthorsagriculture |
| spellingShingle | Silvia C. Ferreira Excavating Mashriqi Roots in the Mahjar: Agriculture and Assimilation in Raduan Nassar's Lavoura arcaica Mashriq & Mahjar Levantine Southern Mahjar Brazil Southern Mahjar literature authors agriculture |
| title | Excavating Mashriqi Roots in the Mahjar: Agriculture and Assimilation in Raduan Nassar's Lavoura arcaica |
| title_full | Excavating Mashriqi Roots in the Mahjar: Agriculture and Assimilation in Raduan Nassar's Lavoura arcaica |
| title_fullStr | Excavating Mashriqi Roots in the Mahjar: Agriculture and Assimilation in Raduan Nassar's Lavoura arcaica |
| title_full_unstemmed | Excavating Mashriqi Roots in the Mahjar: Agriculture and Assimilation in Raduan Nassar's Lavoura arcaica |
| title_short | Excavating Mashriqi Roots in the Mahjar: Agriculture and Assimilation in Raduan Nassar's Lavoura arcaica |
| title_sort | excavating mashriqi roots in the mahjar agriculture and assimilation in raduan nassar s lavoura arcaica |
| topic | Levantine Southern Mahjar Brazil Southern Mahjar literature authors agriculture |
| url | https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/article/view/38 |
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