Résumé:
The present paper aims to distinguish the narrative voice in Anglophone Arab women narratives from other
feminine voices by putting spotlight on the state of hybridity, hyphenation and oscillation between home
and Diaspora and how Arab women writers living in the diaspora stand in a particular cultural, social,
political and linguistic position that enables them to voice distinctively their female compatriots to the
Western readership. A fundamental preoccupation, in this article, is to argue that the narrative voice in
Anglophone Arab women’s writings is both dialogic and polyphonic following Bakhtin’s theory of
Dialogism. The major finding of this paper is that the voice in these narratives is both multiple and complex
since the hyphenated identity of Arab women writers living in the Diaspora is also complex and multilayered.
