{"product_id":"9780815612193","title":"A Bridge Too Soon","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than a century before contemporary debates about Arab American identity, a Lebanese immigrant woman in New York City was championing intercultural dialogue and women's solidarity across cultural divides through the radical medium of the Arabic novel. ?Afifa Karam (1883-1924) not only wrote groundbreaking fiction; she also theorized the novel as a genre that could empower immigrant women readers at a time when the Arabic novel itself had yet to gain acceptance as a legitimate literary form.   Elizabeth Saylor offers the first comprehensive study of Karam's life and work, recovering a pivotal yet overlooked figure in the nahda, the Arabic cultural renaissance. Drawing on Karam's journalism in the New York-based newspaper al-Huda and her three published novels, Saylor reveals how this writer, journalist, and translator developed a distinctly gendered theory of fiction while addressing the urgent questions facing Syrian immigrants navigating between Arab and American cultures. Karam's novels-Badi?a wa-Fu?ad, Fatima al-Badawiyya, and Ghadat ?Amshit-feature heroines who embody hybrid identities, forge unlikely cross-cultural friendships, and resist patriarchal oppression both in their ancestral homeland and their adopted country. Karam emerges as a bold social critic and literary innovator whose work remains strikingly relevant to contemporary discussions of transnational feminism and cultural hybridity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47673652969524,"sku":"9780815612193","price":168.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780815612193.jpg?v=1776464140","url":"https:\/\/woodslane.com.au\/products\/9780815612193","provider":"Woodslane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}