The way back home: Self-authorship, home, and intergenerational bonds in Arabic YA novels of return
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Rhetoric and Composition Department
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https://doi.org/10.3366/IRCL.2021.0410
Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
International Research in Children's Literature
Publication Date
10-1-2021
doi
10.3366/IRCL.2021.0410
Abstract
This article deals with award-winning Arabic YA novels The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi, and Cappuccino by Fatima Sharafeddine, appropriating Marcia Baxter Magolda’s term ‘self-authorship’ to trace the role of transnational migration in young adult cognitive growth. The novels twin maturity with increased ambiguity around national affiliation, and this article demonstrates how intergenerational bonds are challenged, rearranged, and maintained by the protagonists as they struggle for their personal rights within a patriarchal system.
First Page
269
Last Page
282
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APA Citation
Motawy, Y.
(2021). The way back home: Self-authorship, home, and intergenerational bonds in Arabic YA novels of return. International Research in Children's Literature, 14(3), 269–282.
10.3366/IRCL.2021.0410
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/2694
MLA Citation
Motawy, Yasmine
"The way back home: Self-authorship, home, and intergenerational bonds in Arabic YA novels of return." International Research in Children's Literature, vol. 14,no. 3, 2021, pp. 269–282.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/2694