This thesis examines the cosmopolitanism concept depicts in Mohja Kahf‘s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) novel. This novel belongs to bildungsroman genre and Arab-American diaspora literature that narrates the story of Khadra Shamy, a Syrian Muslim woman who immigrates to Indiana, United States, at age of five with her family in pursuit of safety and freedom. The purpose and significance of this research are to understand how the cosmopolitanism concept depiction in the novel questions the exclusion of US Muslims. By applying the concept of Cosmopolitanism, the research discovers that cosmopolitanism concept in the novel is best depicted through three key concepts: Hybridity, Modernism and Transnationalism. It reveals that through hybridity of two cultures: Arab and American, the novel suggests that US Muslims, especially the Arab-American Muslims, are able to assimilate their identity and identify their belonging to America. Meanwhile, modernism reveals that Muslims are actually open to the development and breaks the Orientalist view of Muslims as outdated and backwards. Lastly, transnationalism finds how Muslim immigrants form a global Muslim brotherhood and also identifies immigrants belonging to the US that challenge the dominant individualism culture. As the result, I find those three concepts of cosmopolitanism in the novel challenges the limitation of Muslims in US mainstream sphere.

BSI21055

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