TY - JOUR T1 - Migration, Literature and Cultural Identity: The Case of Arab Emigrants to the United States in the Late Ninetenth and Early Twentieth Centuries AU - Adegboyega, Badmus Murtada JO - The Social Sciences VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 355 EP - 358 PY - 2010 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2010.355.358 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2010.355.358 KW - Migration KW -literature KW -cultural identity KW -Arab emigrants KW -cultural interference KW -Nigeria AB - This study focuses on the way in which a group of Arab emigrants of Lebanese stock who were forced out of their homeland due to socio-political reasons, projected their Arab cultural identity in the foreign land. The Arabic literary culture was displayed in an excellent manner which resulted into the formation of Ar-Rabitah, in the United States. On the other hand, their counterparts in the North America also formed Al-Usbah. The influence of their literary endeavours touched the nooks and crannies of the Arab world the result of which gave birth to a modern literary school named al-Mahjar which is a product of cross-fertilization of American/European and Arab cultures and literatures. ER -