Homes and Homelands: Leaving a Homeland/Creating a Home
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 April 2025 | Viewed by 470
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
While many describe the work of hyphenated artists as a search for (or introduction to) an identity and a (new) home, many of those artists seem to think that their artistic productions are themselves representations of ‘their identity’ and their sense of belonging to their present homes, thus to know their work is to know them, because their art “is the thing,” and if it reflects interrogations vis à vis selfhood and homeland, it is because of their quintessential hybrid distinctiveness.
Likewise, immigration, home, homeland, and relationships are weaved into Arab-American dramatic narratives as they attempt to rebuild their inner homes by keeping family, memories, recipes, and community as a homeland. Some stories demonstrate the impossibility of reconciliations between the originary homelands and the liminal “identities” of the hybrid characters dominating the dramatic texts, because their displacement developed within them new perspectives and queries of the self. Therefore, the significance of many dramatic productions of Arab-American playwrights can at times be construed as a demystification of the notion of immigration and an explanation of the predicament of belonging to two worlds simultaneously.
This Journal of Humanities Special Issue is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics about Arab-American playwriting within the context of homes and homelands.
Dr. Dina Amin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hybridity
- Arab-American theatre
- displacement
- liminality
- diaspora
- the Arab World
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