About the speaker Suheir Hammad Poet, playwright See speaker profile In her poems and plays, Suheir Hammad blends the stories and sounds of her Palestinian-American heritage with the vibrant language of Brooklyn to create a passionately ...
Inhabiting the Hyphen: (Re)Negotiating Arab-American Identity in Poems by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Laila Halaby and Suheir HammadAmina ElHalawani
This chapter analyzes two exemplary poems by Suheir Hammad and D. H. Melhem, focusing on the aesthetic strategies that are applied to interrogate various kinds of “borders” and experiences of inclusive exclusion in the aftermath of 9/11. Hammad and Melhem counter the global differentials that...
Reading performativity and community as major themes across Hammad's work, the article tracks these influences from her performance of "first writing since" in 2002 to her 2008 poetry collection, breaking poems. An exploration of the connection between performativity and community in Hammad's work ...