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Arab Mothers and Their American Daughters: Reading Susan Muaddi Darraj's "The Inheritance of Exile" in the Light of Edward Said's Thoughts On Exile
(Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019) Soylukan, Sevil; Sümer, Sema Zafer
This thesis analyzes, the exilic experiences and its consequences of Arab women and their American daughters in Susan Muaddi Darraj's The Inheritance of Exile in the light of Edward Said's notion of exile, home and displacement. Said defines the word exile as terrible to experience and for Said; alienation, nostalgia, depression, emotional breakdowns, and unbelonging are the ongoing problems of being an exile. Questioning of home and unbelonging are the major themes of Arab American literature and these concepts are defined and developed through the experiences of the women characters in the book. For Darraj's women, the word home refers to different places and conveys different feelings as there is no general definition of it, whereas, the word displacement reveals the feeling of being lost. To sum up, Edward Said's notion of exile and the consequences of having exilic experience coincides with the problems and emotions experienced by the female characters of Susan Muaddi Darraj's The Inheritance of Exile.