Post 11 /9 Trauma and the Demise of the American Dream in the Anglo-Arab novel Once in a Promised Land by Laila Halaby

Wasan Ali Hasan

doi:10.33193/IJoHSS.44.2023.558

Wasan Ali Hasan Department of English, College of Education for Women, Al-Iraqia University Baghdad, Iraq

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33193/IJoHSS.44.2023.558

Keywords: the American dream, the 11-9 attacks, racism, terrorism, Arab identity, and American identity

Abstract

People see America as a place where they can rise from poverty and improve themselves. An environment where financial security is the result of education and hard effort. A location that offers opportunity, freedom, and hope. They see it as a happy and welcoming ambiance. A position in which the person has some control over his living situation in life. This is how people see the American dream. This study examines Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land, an Anglo-Arab fiction. The current study examines how the 11-9 attacks negatively impacted Arab Americans and destroyed their American dream. This paper also emphasizes how difficult it is for Arab Americans to retain their identity and fit into American society after the attacks.

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