Articles in Refereed Journals

1- Saber, Yomna. “You are in the Dark”: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, Black Transnational Identities” in Atlantis. Forthcoming in 2025.

2- Saber, Yomna. “The Quest as a Historical Inquest” in The Comparatist. Vol. 47, October 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2023.a911945

3- Saber, Yomna. “Remembering and Forgetting in Sara Collins’ The Confessions of Frannie Langton”. Neohelicon. Spring, Volume 51, pages 131–150, (2024).

4. Saber, Yomna. “‘My Mother Must Have Been Other Than Women’: Matrophobia in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” in a/b Auto/Biography Studies. 14/12/ 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2286157

5. Saber, Yomna. “The Mimetic Desires of Warring Siblings in Fuad Al Takarli’s Novels” in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2023. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27191272

6- Saber, Yomna. “Blurring the Contours of Memory in June Jordan’s Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood” in a/b Auto/Biography Studies 34(1):1-25, April 2019. DOI: http://10.1080/08989575.2019.1592367

7- Saber, Yomna. “The Conjure Woman’s Poetics of Poisoning in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day” in Folklore 129(4):375-396, October 2018. DOI: http://10.1080/0015587X.2018.1486059

8- Saber, Yomna. “Reconceptualizing the Archetypal Trickster in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” in Journal of Lesbian Studies 19(4):484-500, October 2015. DOI: http://10.1080/10894160.2015.993889

9- Saber, Yomna. Langston Hughes: Fringe Modernism, Identity and Defying the Interrogator Witch-Hunter” in Journal of American Studies 49(01):173-179, February 2015. DOI: http://10.1017/S002187581400190X

10- Saber, Yomna. “The Charged Strolls of the Brown Flâneuse in Sandra Cisneros’s “The House on Mango Street” in Pacific Coast Philology 48(1):69-87, January 2013. DOI: http://10.2307/41932640

11- Saber, Yomna. “Lorraine Hansberry: Defining the Line Between Integration and Assimilation” in Women s Studies 39(5):451-469, July 2010. DOI: http://10.1080/00497878.2010.484330

12- Saber, Yomna. ” The Repressed, the Archaic and the Ugly: Returning Mythos in Audre Lord’s Poetry and Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetics” in Philology 60 (2), 2018.

13- Saber, Yomna. “Zora Neale Hurston and the Hamartiology of the Trickster in “Sweat”” in Sahifatul Alsun 30 (1), 2014.

14- Saber, Yomna. ‘Who Said It Was Simple!’ Third-Wave Feminist Coalition and Audre Lorde’s Intersectionalist Hybrid Poetics of Difference” in Philology 61 (31), 2014.

Books:

1- Saber, Yomna. Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race: Black Female Trickster’s Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in African American Women Literature. Peter lang. 2017. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054873

2- Saber, Yomna. Brave to be Involved: Shifting Positions in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. Peter lang, 2010. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052242

3- Davidson, Joanna and Yomna Saber, eds. Narrating Illness: Prospects and Constraints. Brill, 2016. https://brill.com/view/title/38342

Book Chapters:

1- Saber, Yomna. “The Gift and Torment of Lesbian Bars in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” August 2021, DOI: http://10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_335-1, in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies.

2- Saber, Yomna. “What else is a Woman to do?” Negotiating Urban Spaces in Ann Petry’s The Street“, March 2021, DOI: http://10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_211-1, in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies.

3- Saber, Yomna. “Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters: Hearing the Silent Voice of Pain”, March 2019, DOI: http://10.1163/9789004396067_009, in Voices of Illness: Negotiating Meaning and Identity, Brill.

4- Saber, Yomna. “Disability in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters: Narrating Pain and Healing Wounds” in Narrating Illness: Prospects and Constraints, Brill, 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848884885_014

5- Saber, Yomna. ‘I Bear Two Women upon My Back’: Intersectionalist Hybridity in the Poetry of Audre Lorde” in All Equally Real: Femininities and Masculinities Today, Brill, 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848883178_009.

6- Saber, Yomna. “Self-Perception While Walking in the City in Charles Johnson’s Faith and the Good Thing” in Urban Cultures of/in the United States: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Ed. Andrea Carosso, Peter Lang, 2010. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051923