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Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz

Cilt: 29 Sayı: 3 12 Eylül 2025
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Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz

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This study explores the evolving Arab-American identity in Diana Abu-Jaber’s influential novels, Crescent (2003) and Arabian Jazz (1993), through the interconnected lenses of exile, hybridity, and cultural negotiation. Drawing on postcolonial theory, particularly the insights of Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, the study examines how Abu-Jaber’s protagonists inhabit liminal zones shaped by gender, race, diaspora, and memory. Through food, music, language, and storytelling, the characters resist cultural essentialism and reconfigure identity as a dynamic, improvisational process rooted in everyday life. Crescent presents exile as an ontological fracture, with culinary ritual and sensory memory functioning as acts of self-reclamation and cultural continuity. In contrast, Arabian Jazz offers a polyphonic exploration of diasporic improvisation, intergenerational tension, and cultural dissonance. The female characters reject both patriarchal and racialized standards and assert autonomy through affective, narrative, and embodied modes of resistance. Ultimately, the article argues that Abu-Jaber’s fiction reframes identity as a performative space of becoming by subverting dominant Orientalist narratives and articulating the layered, contradictory, and resilient nature of Arab-American belonging.

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Kaynakça

  1. Abu-Jaber, D. (1993). Arabian jazz. Harcourt Brace.
  2. Abu-Jaber, D. (2003). Crescent. W.W. Norton & Company.
  3. Bakhtin, M. (1981). The dialogic imagination: Four essays. University of Texas Press.
  4. Bhabha, H. K. (1994). The location of culture. Routledge.
  5. Baalbaki, R. (2020). Al-Mawrid: A modern English-Arabic dictionary. Dar El-Ilm Lil-Malayen.
  6. Bruneau, M. (1995). Diasporas, transnational spaces and communities. In R. Bauböck & T. Faist (Eds.), Diaspora and transnationalism (p. 35-49).
  7. Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press.
  8. Fadda-Conrey, C. (2014). Contemporary Arab-American literature: Transnational reconfigurations of citizenship and belonging. NYU Press.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer)

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

11 Temmuz 2025

Yayımlanma Tarihi

12 Eylül 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

4 Nisan 2025

Kabul Tarihi

2 Temmuz 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 29 Sayı: 3

Kaynak Göster

APA
Aldemir, N. (2025). Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz. Current Perspectives in Social Sciences, 29(3), 452-462. https://doi.org/10.53487/atasobed.1669914
AMA
1.Aldemir N. Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz. Current Perspectives in Social Sciences. 2025;29(3):452-462. doi:10.53487/atasobed.1669914
Chicago
Aldemir, Nimetullah. 2025. “Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz”. Current Perspectives in Social Sciences 29 (3): 452-62. https://doi.org/10.53487/atasobed.1669914.
EndNote
Aldemir N (01 Eylül 2025) Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz. Current Perspectives in Social Sciences 29 3 452–462.
IEEE
[1]N. Aldemir, “Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz”, Current Perspectives in Social Sciences, c. 29, sy 3, ss. 452–462, Eyl. 2025, doi: 10.53487/atasobed.1669914.
ISNAD
Aldemir, Nimetullah. “Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz”. Current Perspectives in Social Sciences 29/3 (01 Eylül 2025): 452-462. https://doi.org/10.53487/atasobed.1669914.
JAMA
1.Aldemir N. Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz. Current Perspectives in Social Sciences. 2025;29:452–462.
MLA
Aldemir, Nimetullah. “Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz”. Current Perspectives in Social Sciences, c. 29, sy 3, Eylül 2025, ss. 452-6, doi:10.53487/atasobed.1669914.
Vancouver
1.Nimetullah Aldemir. Exile, Hybridity and Cultural Negotiation in Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Arabian Jazz. Current Perspectives in Social Sciences. 01 Eylül 2025;29(3):452-6. doi:10.53487/atasobed.1669914

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