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Arab-American women's writing and performance : Orientalism, race and the idea of the Arabian nights / Somaya Sami Sabry.
Van Pelt Library PS153.A73 S237 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabry, Somaya Sami.
- Series:
- International library of cultural studies ; 19.
- International library of cultural studies ; 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Arab American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Scheherazade, Queen, consort of Shahryar, King of Persia (Legendary character)--In literature.
- Scheherazade.
- Race relations in literature.
- Orientalism in literature.
- Arab American arts.
- Scheherazade, Queen, consort of Shahryar, King of Persia (Legendary character).
- Arab Americans--Social conditions.
- Arab Americans.
- American literature--Women authors.
- American literature--Arab American authors.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 208 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies, 2011.
- Contents:
- 1 Sheherazade in the West: 'Sheherazadian narrative' as a Dihliz in the Diaspora 1
- A Diasporic Dihliz: Narratives that link us and spaces where we mingle 5
- Arab women's writing and Sheherazade 7
- Diasporic Sheherazadian narrative 11
- Orientalism and shifts in perspective 13
- Sheherazade's 'borderly' feminism 18
- Sheherazade and sites of translation 22
- Sheherazade between narrative and orality 24
- 2 Why Recast Her in the West? Sheherazade and Race 29
- The 'Orient' and Sheherazade 30
- Openness and the evolutionary nature of Sheherazadian narrative 35
- Contexts and registers of translation 37
- American Orientalism 38
- The racial politics of being Arab and American post-9/11 42
- Race and Sheherazade 45
- Sheherazade, text and desire 47
- Sheherazadian narrative and negotiating race in the Arab-American diaspora 50
- 3 Cooking Sheherazade's America: Tasting Arab-American Women's Diasporic Narratives in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent 53
- Imagining dispersed diasporic identities: Opening up the Arab-American diaspora 56
- Culinary narratives: Sheherazade's recipe for cultural negotiations 60
- The diasporic directions of Sheherazadian narrative in Crescent 65
- Situating a home: 'Hollywood' and 'Tehrangeles' 66
- Challenging racial purity: Miscegenation and the mermaid Alieph 70
- Resisting Orientalism through Sheherazadian narrative 72
- Reinventing The Nights: Sheherazade speaks Arab-American 74
- Going after Burton: How does the Sheherazadian narrative resist? 75
- Diaspora and inhabiting the dihliz in writing 79
- Newspapers, media and diasporic communities 80
- Who is translating and why? 81
- Crescent's cultural translation 83
- 4 'Fabric-ating' Affiliation: Fashioning Scarves in Muslim-American Women's Diasporic Experiences 87
- E-mails and 'splintered' belonging 91
- Making a scene: 'Hijab Scenes' 105
- Fashioning a new hijab 106
- A synergy of starves 111
- Odalisques between the mind and body 118
- An 'E-mail from Scheherazad' 122
- 5 Diasporic Articulations: Performing 'Sheherazadian Orality' 127
- Laila Farah and Hyphen-Nation 139
- Questioning categories: Unveiling stereotypes and dressing up 144
- Sheherazade's stand-up routine 147
- Laughter and resistance: Zayid's Sheherazadian orality 150
- Sheherazade between the pen and the tongue 161
- 6 Arab-American Literature, Performance and the Future 167.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848855687
- 1848855680
- OCLC:
- 664325508
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