The use of Jewishness as a trope for understanding contemporary economic theories arguably originates with Karl Marx’s characterization of the commodity as an “inwardly circumcised Jew”, which Slav...

Jews and Muslims in Globalization Literature and Theory From William Shakespeare to Ayad Akhtar

This study examines the clash between the religious and social aspects of Muslim’s life in Ayad Akhtar's debut novel, American Dervish . The novel expounds the failure of the Muslim character, Hayat Shah, to integrate himself into a new communal life as he still holds on the remnant beliefs he has acquired from his earlier life in Pakistan, his home country. Hayat embodies the newer generation whereas his father embodies the older one. They behave identically in pursuing the similar way in that Hayat discovers his self in befriending the Jewish girl Rachel and in giving up the Islamic creeds, taught by his mentor Mina; simultaneously, his father discovers his individuality in accompanying his lifetime workmate, Nathan Wolfsohn, a Jewish professor. Ayad Akhtar intends to highlight the behaviour of the immigrants, who face the teething difficulties in their lives until they discover a way to integrate themselves into their new community. The study adopts the cultural approach in analysing the novel.

http://article.literarts.org/pdf/10.11648.j.ijla.20160404.12.pdf

Religion and Identity in Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish : A Cultural Study

This thesis entitled ‘Being Muslim Immigrants in America: Preservation, Resistance, and Negotiation of Identity in Ayad Akhtar’s ‘American Dervish’ aims to analyze the depiction of Muslim immigrants identity in the context of diaspora. Through the lenses of Hall’s theory of identity and Clifford’s diaspora, the analysis centered on how the Muslim immigrant characters in the novel interacted with other individuals with diverse backgrounds of race, gender, and religion. This contributed towards the construction of identity through the preservation and resistance of homeland culture, dominant culture or host land culture and the negotiation between Muslim immigrants and their state and American society. Therefore, the Muslim immigrant characters in the novel hold a non-essential and fluid identity as portrayed from the perpetual construction of identity.

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Being Muslim Immigrants in America: Preservation, Resistance, and Negotiation of Identity in Ayad Akhtar’s “American Dervish”

This paper focuses on the concept of the loss of identity in Ayad Akhtar's debut novel American Dervish. The novel explicates the inability of the Muslim protagonist, Hayat Shah, to assimilate himself into community as far as he still holds on his remnant tenets he has inherited from his homeland Pakistan. This theme is overtly applied to both Hayat's character as well as his father's. Hayat represents the younger generation while his father represents the older one. They both follow the same path in that Hayat finds his identity in befriending the Jewish girl Rachel as well as in discarding the Islamic tenets, taught by his mentor Mina; in the meantime, his father finds his identity in accompanying his lifelong workmate--Nathan Wolfsohn, a Jewish professor. With regard to this point, Ayad Akhtar's message to the readers perhaps lies in the way the immigrants to the west in general and to America in particular encounter the so many teething troubles in their lives until they find a path to assimilate themselves into their new community.

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Loss of Identity in Ayad Akhtar's American Dervish

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Ragab Selim Ali

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Loss of Identity in Ayad Akhtar's American Dervish

Ability of carbamylated hemoglobin to predict duration and stage of renal diseases