Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader's Guide

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143 Notes 2. Uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American Fiction: Etel Adnan, Rawi Hage, Patricia Sarrafian Ward 1. Gary Hentzi and Anne McClintock, “Overlapping Territories: The World, the Text, and the Critic,” in Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward Said, edited by Gauri Viswanathan (New York: Vintage, 2001), 56. 2. Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose, translated by Georgina Kleege (Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1982), 1; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 3. Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (New York: Pantheon, 2004), 4. 4. Rawi Hage, De Niro’s Game (Hanover, NH: Steer Forth Press, 2006), 54; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 5. Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001), 94. 6. Patricia Sarrafian Ward, The Bullet Collection (St. Paul, MN: Graywolf, 2003), 86; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 3. Exploring Islam(s) in America: Mohja Kahf 1. Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), 5; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 2. Ali Behdad, A Forgetful Nation (Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2005), 10. 3. Quoted in Peggy Trytko, “Caught in the Crossfire: Mohja Kahf,” IU South Bend Preface, Feb. 7, 2007, available at http://iusbpreface.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/. 4. Sex, Violence, and Storytelling: Rabih Alameddine 1. Rabih Alameddine, Koolaids: The Art of War (New York: Picador, 1998), 18, italics in the original; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 2. Rabih Alameddine, I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), 229; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 3. Waïl S. Hassan, “Of Lions and Storytelling,” Al Jadid (Winter–Spring 2004), 36. 4. Ibid. 5. Lorraine Adams, “Once upon Many Times,” New York Times, May 18, 2008. 144 | N o t e s t o P a g e s 5 4 – 1 0 2 6. Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), 291; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 5. The Eternity of Immigration: Arab American Short Story Collections (Joseph Geha, Frances Khirallah Noble, Evelyn Shakir, Susan Muaddi Darraj) 1. Joseph Geha, Through and Through: Toledo Stories (St. Paul, MN: Graywolf, 1990), 32; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 2. Frances Khirallah Noble, The Situe Stories (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2000), 5; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 3. Evelyn Shakir, Remember Me to Lebanon (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2007), 102; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 4. Susan Muaddi Darraj, The Inheritance of Exile (Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2007), 112; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 5. Lisa Suhair Majaj, “New Directions: Arab-American Writing at Century’s End,” in Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing, edited by Khaled Mattawa and Munir Akash (Bethesda, MD: Jusoor, 1999), 75. 6. Promised Lands and Unfulfilled Promises: Laila Halaby 1. Laila Halaby, West of the Jordan (Boston: Beacon, 2003), 206; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 2. Steven Salaita, interview with Laila Halaby, RAWI Newsletter (Summer 2008), 2. 3. Laila Halaby, Once in a Promised Land (Boston: Beacon, 2007), 31; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 4. Hayan Charara, “Introduction,” in Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry, edited by Hayan Charara (Little Rock: Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2008), xxvi. 7. Crescent Moons, Jazz Music, and Feral Ethnicity: Diana Abu-Jaber 1. Alice Evans, “Half and Half: A Profile of Diana Abu-Jaber,” Poets and Writers Magazine 24 (1996), 42. 2. Email correspondence from Abu-Jaber to the author, October 2000. 3. Evans, “Half and Half,” 43. 4. Diana Abu-Jaber, Arabian Jazz (New York: Harvest, 1993), 67; subsequent citations to this work are given as parenthetical page references in the text. 5. Qtd. in Evans, “Half and Half,” 47–48. 6. Ibid., 41. 7. Carol Fadda-Conrey, “Arab American Literature in the Ethnic Borderland...