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Between the Middle East and the Americas : the cultural politics of diaspora

Alsultany, Evelyn, (editor.). Shohat, Ella, 1959- (editor.).

Summary: This book traces the production and circulation of discourses about "the Middle East" across various cultural sites, against the historical backdrop of cross-Atlantic Mahjar flows.

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  • ISBN: 1299159818
  • ISBN: 9781299159815
  • ISBN: 0472069446
  • ISBN: 9780472069446
  • ISBN: 0472099442
  • ISBN: 9780472099443
  • ISBN: 0472028774
  • ISBN: 9780472028771
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) : illustrations
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  • Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2013.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The cultural politics of the Middle East in the Americas : an introduction / Ella Shohat and Evelyn Alsultany -- The Moorish Atlantic : orientalism/occidentalism between the Middle East and the Americas / Ella Shohat -- Mahjar legacies : a reinterpretation / Jacob Berman -- Turcos in the mix : corrupting Arabs in Brazil's racial democracy / John Tofik Karam -- From baisanos to billionaires : locating Arabs in Mexico / Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp -- Ali Bla Bla's double-edged sword : Argentine president Carlos Menem and the negotiation of identity / Christina Civantos -- They hate our freedom, but we love their belly dance : the spectacle of the shimmy in contemporary U.S. culture / Amira Jarmakani -- From Arab terrorists to patriotic Arab Americans : representational strategies in post-9/11 TV dramas / Evelyn Alsultany -- When Pakistanis became Middle Eastern : visualizing racial targets in the global war on terror / Junaid Rana -- A strip, a land, a blaze : Arab American hip-hop and transnational politics / Sunaina Maira -- Muslim digital diasporas and the gay pornographic cyber imaginary / Karim Tartoussieh -- Drawing the line : a rhetorical analysis of the Mohammed cartoons controversy as it unfolded in Denmark and the United States / Helle Rytkönen -- Turcophobia or Turcophilia : politics of representing Arabs in Latin America / Heba El Attar -- User-friendly Islams : translating Rumi in France and the United States / Ziad Elmarsafy -- "Axising" Iran : the politics of domestication and cultural translation / R. Shareah Taleghani -- The uneven bridge of translation : Turkey in between East/West / Shouleh Vatanabadi.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Western countries
United States
Middle East
International relations
Arabs -- Social conditions
Arabs -- Ethnic identity
Arab Americans -- Social conditions
Arab Americans -- Ethnic identity
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
Western countries -- Relations -- Middle East
Middle East -- Relations -- Western countries
United States -- Relations -- Middle East
Middle East -- Relations -- United States
Arabs -- Western countries -- Social conditions
Arabs -- Western countries -- Ethnic identity
Arab Americans -- Social conditions
Arab Americans -- Ethnic identity
Arabs -- Social conditions
Arabs -- Ethnic identity
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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