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Title:

Between the Middle East and the Americas : the cultural politics of diaspora / edited by Evelyn Alsultany and Ella Shohat.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xii, 334 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Arabs--Ethnic identity.
Arabs--Social conditions.
Arab Americans--Ethnic identity.
Arab Americans--Social conditions.
Arabs--Western countries--Ethnic identity.
Arabs--Western countries--Social conditions.
Middle East--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Middle East.
Middle East--Relations--Western countries.
Western countries--Relations--Middle East.

Other Authors:

Alsultany, Evelyn.
Shohat, Ella, 1959-

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0472028774 (e-book)
9780472028771 (e-book)
0472069446 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780472069446 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0472099442 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472099443 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)793221889

LCCN:

2012033640

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)