Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Al-issa, Fadi Ahmad
URN	etd-09152003-222016
Title	Living on the Hypen: The Literature of the Early Arab-Americans between 1870-1940
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Robin Goodman Committee Chair Christopher Shinn Committee Member Daniel Vitkus Committee Member
Keywords	Early Arab-American Experience
Date of Defense	2003-08-02
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract In this thesis, I focus on the early from 1870 to 1940. I confirm that they did try to preserve their ethnic identity through language by applying Benedict Anderson’s theory “imagined communities.” In the first chapter, I explain the first encounters between the American and the Arab cultures and the influences of the Protestant missionaries in the Arab countries. In the second chapter, I discuss the issue of Arab-American literature and how it reflected the experiences and turmoil of the early Arab immigrants. In the third chapter I apply Andersons’ concept of “imagined communities” to the Arab-American ethnicity.
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