<i>Illuminating Texts</i>: Naomi Shihab Nye and her Palestinian-Influenced Writings

  • John David Brantley Trinity University, Texas

Abstract

n her poetry and in her stories Nye uses our senses to take us to people and experiences that we would otherwise never know: the strange becomes familiar, the stranger becomes a friend. She shows us that beyond all the distinctions we make between ourselves and "the others" there is always the daily activity that makes life: the tree that needs climbing, the stone to throw, the bread to bake.

Author Biography

John David Brantley, Trinity University, Texas
Javid Beagley is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Literacy at La Trobe University's Bendigo campus, Victoria, Australia, where he teaches units in Genres, History, Australian and Post-colonial children's literature. He has previously taught in secondary schools, and has been a school and university librarian.
Issue
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2004)
Section
Jabberwocky
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