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Lahcen Ait Idir
Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammedia
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Negotiating Identity across Borders in Arab Anglophone Diasporic Writings: Reflections on Abbas El-Zein’s Leave to Remain (2008) Lahcen Ait Idir
LISANIA: Journal of Arabic Education and Literature Vol. 7 No. 2 (2023)
Publisher : Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan IAIN Salatiga

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18326/lisania.v7i2.116-132

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Generally, diaspora narratives are about leaving and returning. Throughout these processes, diasporas engage in negotiating their identities, inside and outside their country of origin, construct different memories, and exhibit a plethora of feelings and attitudes. In this regard, Abbas El-Zein’s memoir Leave to Remain is preoccupied with a constant search for identity and being in Lebanon and elsewhere. The current paper examines El-Zein’s discourse on belonging through the identification negotiation. It discusses how his multiple identifications as Lebanese, Arab, and Australian are at work through a continuous struggle informed by different attitudes and feelings. El-Zein had “inhabited” and visited many places like America, England, Japan, Paris, Iraq, Australia, etc. This makes him a transnational diasporist, experiencing multi-placedness.
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