WORDS UNDER THE WORDS: MAPPING NAOMI SHIHAB NYE’S POETRY
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Authors with diasporic identities can be thought of
being in a constant state of becoming. Being both from ‘there’ and from ‘here’
simultaneously requires having more than one reference point in construction of
identity. Such awareness allows for a ‘third space’ with its constructive
possibilities for the woman writer. Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet who draws upon
her heritage of diaspora in her work. Born in 1952 to a Palestinian father and
an American mother, she employs the ‘third space’ as a potential location of
healing. She chooses to see borders not as a line of separation, but rather a
series of contact points. By doing so she proposes alternative ways of forming
relationships across cultures based not on difference, but sameness.
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Kaynakça
- Blasingame, James (2010). ‘Interview with Naomi Shihab Nye’. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 54 (1): 66-67. Cohen, Robin (1997). Global Diasporas: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge. Friedman, Susan Stanford (1998). Mappings: Feminism and the Geographies of Encounter. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Hilal, Deema (2002). “Bordering on the Borderless”. Aljadid 8 (39) :7-17. Long, Kate (2009). “Roots: On Language and Heritage, a Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye”. World Literature Today November- December: 31-34. Moore, Henrietta L. (1994). A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender. Blooming: Indiana University Press. Nye, Naomi Shihab (1995). Words under the Words. Portland, Oregon: The Eighth Mountain Press. Nye, Naomi Shihab (1998) Fuel. Rochester, New York: Boa Editions Ltd.
- Rich, Adrienne (1995). Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970. London: W.W. Norton & Company. Rich, Adrienne (2002). The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950- 2001. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Seyhan, Azade (2001). Writing Outside the Nation. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
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Yayımlanma Tarihi
3 Nisan 2016
Gönderilme Tarihi
28 Şubat 2016
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