P. M. Carmona-Rodríguez

Permacrises: Refugee Experience and Commonality-Building Practices in Omar El Akkad’s Narratives

Abstract This paper analyses American War (2017) and What Strange Paradise (2021), the two novels published as of to date by the Canadian, US-based writer Omar El Akkad, in parallel to one of his short stories, “Riverbed” (2019). The three narratives are ingrained in an ambience of continuous instability to construct t...