期刊名称：Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1944-1088
电子版ISSN：1944-1096
出版年度：2016
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：1-22
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：The multiethnic literature of the United States is replete with (hi)stories of people of hyphenated identities narrated from subaltern's perspectives. A contemporary Scheherazade of Arab - American literature, Mohja Kahf (2006) has illustrated the precarious positioning of Arab Americans as inbetweeners of cultures in her novel, The Girl in Tangerine Scarf . Drawing on Homi Bhabha's (1994) concepts of the third space and hybridity, this paper studies the ways "naturalized" boundaries of us/them identifications are revealed to be permeable and subject to ch ange in Kahf's novel. A tripartite model of subjectivity is also presented for classification of the inbetweener subjects into nativist, assimilationist, and hybrid groups. It is asserted that hybridity , as an empowerment , is not achieved by all subjects l ocated in the third space , for it demands dynamic re - evaluation of dominant discourses of representation which are narratives of power as well. Orientalism, multiculturalism, and feminism are the main discourses challenged in Kahf's novel.
