Negotiating liminal identities in Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

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Negotiating liminal identities in Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

This paper challenges the thought that the term ‘Muslim woman’ connotes submissive or backward and is in need of rescue by the West through a literary analysis of the work by Mohja Kahf (b.1967), a leading contemporary Arab-American Muslim woman writer. In her novel, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf...

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Main Authors:	Alkarawi, Susan Taha, Bahar, Ida Baizura
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Australian International Academic Centre 2013
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27952/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27952/1/37952.pdf

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