Diana Abu- Jaber’s Crescent as a Postmodernist Novel

The main objective of this paper is to study Diana Abu-Jaber’s novel Crescent (2003) from a postmodernist perspective. The novel will be examined from such perspectives as characterization, language, identity, hybridity, exile, multiculturalism, ethnic plurality, intertextuality, narrative method, fragmentation, parody,setting, ambiguity as well as its connection with science fiction, magic realism and metafiction. Parallels will also be drawn between Crescent and other relevant literary works by some fellow Arab-American and Arab –British writers with a view to placing it in its appropriate context