MOHJA KAHF'S THE GIRL IN THE TANGERINE SCARF SEEN THROUGH THE HIJAB PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Literature often represents fictionally how gender relations are deeply affected by diaspora. The case of contemporary Arab-American writers is no exception to this, and recent works by Arab-American women writers have indeed been giving voice to silenced women. Our hypothesis in this article is that, in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, the main character negotiates her subjectivity in the space of diaspora, which is illustrated mainly, among other things, through her choice of clothes.