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dc.contributor.authorMaloul, Linda F.
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-09T13:34:06Z
dc.date.available2023-06-09T13:34:06Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-14
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/18902138.2019.1592537en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14131/903
dc.description.abstractPast, and more significantly, post 9/11 Anglo-American political and popular culture representations of Arab Muslim masculinities in general and Palestinian masculinities in particular as evil, violent and terrorizing produced the myth of the Arab Muslim masculine evil: an ahistorical image of Arab and Muslim men that reduces them to a few negative, sometimes contradictory, characteristics. An understanding of politics and cultural productions as inextricably linked can explain the reasons behind the strength and sustainability of these negative stereotypes. In addition, it explains why Arab American writers find fiction an appropriate medium to produce diverse images of Arabs, Muslims and Arab Americans. This article draws primarily on Daniel Monterescu’s models of hegemonic Palestinian masculinities which follow Raewyn Connell’s model of hierarchical masculinities to explore the ways by which Laila Halaby’s West of the Jordan (2003) and Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home (2008) offer complex Palestinian Muslim masculinities, particularly in the domestic sphere. These masculinities are positioned within specific historical, socio-political and cultural realities, which are not solely governed by narrow definitions of Islam. Palestinian Muslim masculinities in both novels challenge monolithic and essentialist representations of Arab Muslim men in general and Palestinian men, particularly after the events of 9/11.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjectPalestinian masculinities, Arab American, 9/11, Randa Jarrar, Laila Halaby, A Map of Home, West of the Jordanen_US
dc.titleThe construction of Palestinian Muslim masculinities in two novels by Laila Halaby and Randa Jarraren_US
dc.source.journalInternational Journal for Masculinity Studiesen_US
dc.source.volume14en_US
dc.source.issue3en_US
dc.contributor.researcherNo Collaborationen_US
dc.contributor.labQueen Effat Women Studiesen_US
dc.subject.KSANAen_US
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dc.source.indexScopusen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish & Translationen_US
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dc.contributor.firstauthorMaloul, Linda F.


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