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Juana Dib Y El Mahyar Árabe-Americano, Marcus S. Palmer

Spanish Faculty Publications

This paper investigates the thematic and aesthetic links between Juana Dib’s poetry with that of emigrant Mahjar writers. It evidences adaptations of perennial themes in Arabic poetry (nationalism, nostalgia, and memory) in Dib’s verses, and argues that the emigrant writers’ break with their poetic past was more selective than it was arbitrary. This contribution then situates Juana Dib’s poetry within the Mahjar literary tradition, and introduces the author as an Arab American poet, in dialogue with her cultural and linguistic heritage.

El presente artículo indaga sobre los vínculos temáticos y estéticos entre la poesía de Juana Dib y la de …