“It is important to stress that a variety of positions with respect to
feminism, nation, religion and identity are to be found in Anglophone Arab
women’s writings. This being the case, it is doubtful whether, in discussing this
literary production, much mileage is to be extracted from over emphasis of the
notion of its being a conduit of ‘Third World subaltern women.’” (Nash 35)
Building on Geoffrey Nash’s statement and reflecting on Deleuze and Guattari’s
conceptualization of minor literature and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderland(s), we
will discuss in this paper how the writings of Arab Anglophone women are
specific minor and borderland narratives within minor literature(s) through a
tentative (re)localization of Arab women’s English literature into distinct and
various categories. By referring to various bestselling English works produced by
Arab British and Arab American women authors, our aim is to establish a new
taxonomy that may fit the specificity of these works