• Shahnaz Begum

The focus of this paper is the representation of the ‘lived’ experience of the Muslim diasporic women in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. This text makes a significant contribution to Muslim American Literaure, a new genre flourished mostly in the twentieth century. The paper will address the struggles and successes of Muslim women, who migrated from their home countries, have created their own domestic space in America, the culture shock they receive, the freedom and empowerment they enjoy in the liberated social space of the U.S. helping them to acculturate in the new founded space. This paper will also examine how the second generation Muslim American women take part in the novel space, the gender roles they perform, how they negotiate with the essentialized identity labeled on them by the Western countries or even the Muslim orthodox society or how Islamic feminism impact and enable them to assert their own agency to mould their life . The episteme of ‘generation’, a substantial critical tool in diaspora, is used to gauge the participation of the Muslim American women in their domestic circuit.

Diaspora, domestic space, Mohja Kahf, Muslim American

"Muslims in America: A Study of Family, Domestic Space and Hybridity in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no.35-42, September 2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009470.pdf

"Muslims in America: A Study of Family, Domestic Space and Hybridity in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no. pp35-42, September 2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009470.pdf