Questioning Identity in Diana Abu Jaber's book "Arabian Jazz"
Adil Ouatat
Literature Review from the year 2023 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, Sultan Moulay Sliman University, language: English, abstract: Diana Abu Jaber is one of the prominent Arab American women writers. This article aims at discussing one of the literary works of Diana Abu Jaber, namely Arabian Jazz, focusing on the theme of identity. In her writings, Diana Abu Jaber deploys the cultural trope to discuss the Arab-American life and issues of belonging to their homeland. Also, Diana tries to focus on the identity theme to negotiate the existence of Arab in the main stream America and how these characters suffer from the duality and how they try to preserve their homeland identity through a hybridization of both identities. In this article the focus will be on the protagonists of the novel Arabia Jazz and how Diana Abu Jaber tries to analyse the protagonists’ identity in a stylistic way.
