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Mai Al-Nakib

Mai Al-Nakib

Mai Al-Nakib is the author of the novel “An Unlasting Home” and the short story collection “The Hidden Light of Objects.” She teaches English and comparative literature at Kuwait University.

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A Portrait of James Joyce’s Lessons in a Kuwait English Class

A Portrait of James Joyce’s Lessons in a Kuwait English Class

What can Euro-American modernism mean to an undergraduate student of literature in Kuwait today? My students are much more focused on claiming identity than appreciating the power of not belonging. What this desire to identify forecloses, however, is contingency, openness, transformation — the possibility that things might be differently arranged.

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