The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: Constructing Diasporic Muslim Identities in a Coming-of-Age Narrative
The paper explores the representation of diasporic Muslim identities in a coming-of-age narrative: Arab American female novelist Mojha Kahf’s bestseller The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf published in 2006. It examines how the religious diasporic hybrid identity is mobilized within the female protag...
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| description | The paper explores the representation of diasporic Muslim identities in a coming-of-age
narrative: Arab American female novelist Mojha Kahf’s bestseller The Girl in the Tangerine
Scarf published in 2006. It examines how the religious diasporic hybrid identity is mobilized
within the female protagonist Khadra Shamy, including the ways she struggles to negotiate
her identity across different cultural terrains and gendered, racialised, intergenerational
configurations. It attempts to show how these literary representations construct – and help
conceptualize—the ways we understand diasporic Muslims in the U.S.
The individual experiences as narrated in the novel illuminate a series of essential
socio-political questions facing the community as a religious minority in a secular context.
This study will address these questions through the representation of cultural hybridity in
the literary narrative within the framework of postcolonial theory. It focuses on three
constructs of the novel central to the conceptualizing of a hybrid identity of the female
protagonist: firstly, the mirror images and moral panics that generate cultural clashes in the
East-West encounter, which foreground, secondly, the predicament of an ambivalent
existence of the protagonist as a diasporic individual, and thirdly, the ways she forges her
hybrid identity as a New Woman within the diasporic context.
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| spelling | doaj.art-a59dd17ab6874b4998a644287b45a09f2022-12-22T03:54:48ZengCasa Cărții de ȘtiințăCultural Intertexts2393-06242393-10782020-10-0110107121The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: Constructing Diasporic Muslim Identities in a Coming-of-Age Narrative Lin LING0College of English, Centre of American Studies, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), ChinaThe paper explores the representation of diasporic Muslim identities in a coming-of-age narrative: Arab American female novelist Mojha Kahf’s bestseller The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf published in 2006. It examines how the religious diasporic hybrid identity is mobilized within the female protagonist Khadra Shamy, including the ways she struggles to negotiate her identity across different cultural terrains and gendered, racialised, intergenerational configurations. It attempts to show how these literary representations construct – and help conceptualize—the ways we understand diasporic Muslims in the U.S. The individual experiences as narrated in the novel illuminate a series of essential socio-political questions facing the community as a religious minority in a secular context. This study will address these questions through the representation of cultural hybridity in the literary narrative within the framework of postcolonial theory. It focuses on three constructs of the novel central to the conceptualizing of a hybrid identity of the female protagonist: firstly, the mirror images and moral panics that generate cultural clashes in the East-West encounter, which foreground, secondly, the predicament of an ambivalent existence of the protagonist as a diasporic individual, and thirdly, the ways she forges her hybrid identity as a New Woman within the diasporic context. https://b00e8ea91c.clvaw-cdnwnd.com/4fb470e8cbb34a32a0dc1701f8d7322d/200000392-3d24c3d24f/107-121.%20Ling.%20The%20Girl%20in%20the%20Tangerine%20Scarf.%20Constructing%20Diasporic%20Muslim%20Identities.pdfhybrid identityamerican muslimpostcolonialismcoming of age narrative |
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| title | The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: Constructing Diasporic Muslim Identities in a Coming-of-Age Narrative |
| title_full | The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: Constructing Diasporic Muslim Identities in a Coming-of-Age Narrative |
| title_fullStr | The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: Constructing Diasporic Muslim Identities in a Coming-of-Age Narrative |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: Constructing Diasporic Muslim Identities in a Coming-of-Age Narrative |
| title_short | The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: Constructing Diasporic Muslim Identities in a Coming-of-Age Narrative |
| title_sort | girl in the tangerine scarf constructing diasporic muslim identities in a coming of age narrative |
| topic | hybrid identity american muslim postcolonialism coming of age narrative |
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