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Hi there,
AMYGOODMAN: You are listening to Democracy Now! Ed Asner in our studio here in New York. We’re also joined by jazz musician Oscar Brown Jr. and by Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad. And we welcome you all to the studio, all part of the Not in Our Name activities that are taking place this week leading up to Sunday, the anniversary of the bombing of Afghanistan. Welcome, Suheir.
SUHEIRHAMMAD: Good morning.
AMYGOODMAN: It’s great to have you with us. And Oscar.
OSCARBROWN JR.: Thank you.
AMYGOODMAN: Oscar Brown, how did you get involved with this?
OSCARBROWN JR.: Well, I was called by a friend of mine in Los Angeles named Michael Slate, who wanted to know if I would be interested in coming to New York to participate. And I certainly was.
AMYGOODMAN: Why?
OSCARBROWN JR.: Well, it seems like they’re about to have a barroom brawl worldwide, and there needs to be something done to cool things out. The policies that the Bush administration
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Chapter 10 Race and Post-9/11 Arab-American Identity: Contestatory Agency in the Poetic Discourse of Suheir Hammad and Andrea Assaf
Abstract
A nation has been defined as a psychological bond that joins a people and that differentiates it, in the subconscious conviction of its members, from all other people in a vital way. Although “Arabs” have migrated to America since the early 1870s, American-born and foreign-born Arab-Americans suddenly found themselves persecuted in the aftermath of 9/11. America had ceased to be a place where they could consider themselves safe and protected. Overnight, American citizens of Arab descent had become the “Other”. The ensuing post-9/11 poetic discourses by Arab-American poets negotiate this constructed alterity in search of a national identity. This essay, using literary imagology as a methodological approach, analyzes contestatory agency in the construction and ensuing mental images of national identity and “belonging” in
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