Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel : The Ohio State University Press : 9780814255766 : 0814255760 : 10 Mar 2020 : How might art disrupt Arabophobia and Islamophobia in the US? In Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel, Mazen Naous argues that fiction is one of the ways in which Arab Americans can correct dominant narratives of themselves with representation of their lived realities. Looking at both the aesthetics and politics in contemporary Arab American novels, Naous demonstrates that the novels&; poetics cannot be extricated from or subsumed under political content. In his finely textured analyses of form and style, Naous uncovers crucial transcultural and transpoetic solidarities that extend beyond the politics of representation.   Naous&;s book offers analyses of Diana Abu-Jaber&;s Arabian Jazz and Crescent, Rabih Alameddine&;s Koolaids: The Art of War, Laila Halaby&;s Once in a Promised Land, and Mohja Kahf&;s The Girl in the Tang