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Mazen Naous' book, Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel, will be released this month by The Ohio State University Press. Join us in celebrations on April 2, 2020 for the book launch party!

About the book: 

How might art disrupt Arabophobia and Islamophobia in the US? In Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel, Mazen Naous argues that fiction is one of the ways in which Arab Americans can correct dominant narratives of themselves with representation of their lived realities. Looking at both the aesthetics and politics in contemporary Arab American novels, Naous demonstrates that the novels’ poetics cannot be extricated from or subsumed under political content. In his finely textured analyses of form and style, Naous uncovers crucial transcultural and transpoetic solidarities that extend beyond the politics of representation.

Mazen Naous specializes in Arab American literature, Arabic literature, postcolonial studies, translation theory, and music and literature. He is currently writing a book provisionally titled The Musiqa of Arab American Literature. Naous is the author of a monograph titled Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel (2020) and editor of an interdisciplinary collection of essays titled Identity and Conflict in the Middle East and its Diasporic Cultures (2016). Please see his faculty page for more information.