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  • Arab, Muslim, Woman

    Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film

    av Lindsey Moore ...
    Serie serie Transformations
    Given a long history of representation by others, what themes and techniques do Arab Muslim women writers, filmmakers and visual artists foreground in their presentation of postcolonial experience?Lindsey Moore’s groundbreaking book demonstrates ways in which women appropriate textual and visual modes of representation, often in cross-fertilizing ways, in challenges to Orientalist/colonialist, ... Läs mer

    681,78 kr

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  • Politics of Piety

    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    av Saba Mahmood ...
    Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... Läs mer

    291,17 kr

  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    av T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Läs mer

    314,39 kr

  • Edward Said

    A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

    Redigerad av Adel Iskandar, Hakem Rustom ...
    Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable volume, the most comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said’s life and work, spans his ... Läs mer

    348,13 kr

  • Female Homosexuality in the Middle East

    Histories and Representations

    av Samar Habib ...
    Serie serie Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality.Habib argues that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and she traces the destruction of Medieval discourses on female homosexuality and the replacement ... Läs mer

    828,86 kr

  • The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

    Serie serie Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world?Bottici and Challand disentangle such a process of myth-making both in the West and in Muslim majority ... Läs mer

    681,78 kr

  • Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies

    Shahrazad Tells Her Story

    Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose to present herself or himself in an autobiography? Do women and men represent themselves in different ways and, if so, why? How do differences in culture affect the writing of autobiography in various ... Läs mer

    270,99 kr

  • Ambiguities of Domination

    Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

    av Lisa Wedeen ...
    Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President Hafiz al-Asad's regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated ... Läs mer

    141,92 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Assia Djebar's L'Amour La Fantasia and the historiographic approach

    av Laura Aletti ...
    This essay will discuss Hutcheon's theory about “historiographic metafiction” in order to explain the meanings of Djebar's work; it will introduce Djebar's approach to history from a gender and post-colonized point of view; finally, issues related to language and history will be addressed. ... Läs mer

    18,70 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • In the Wake of the Poetic

    Palestinian Artists After Darwish

    av Najat Rahman ...
    Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. As it increasingly gains a significant presence on the international scene, much of Palestinian art owes a debt to Mahmoud Darwish, one of the finest contemporary poets, and to Palestinian writers of his generation. Rahman maps the immense ... Läs mer

    242,84 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

    Representations of Place and Transnational Identity

    av Jumana Bayeh ...
    Serie serie Written Culture and Identity
    The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex ... Läs mer

    429,80 kr

  • Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

    The Politics of the Turkish Novel

    av Erdag Göknar ...
    Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work.In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. After decades of criticism for wielding a depoliticized pen, Pamuk was cast as a dissident through his trial, ... Läs mer

    681,78 kr