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Resistance in contemporary Middle Eastern cultures : literature, cinema and music / edited by Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
- Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 44
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dissenters in literature.
- Dissenters, Artistic--Arab countries.
- Dissenters, Artistic.
- Government, Resistance to--Arab countries.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Literature and society--Arab countries.
- Literature and society.
- Music--Social aspects--Arab countries.
- Music.
- Popular culture--Arab countries.
- Popular culture.
- Arab countries--In mass media.
- Arab countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of 'cultural resistance' to describe the way culture and cultural creations are used to resist or even change the dominant political, social, economic, and cultural discourses and structures either consciously or unconsciously. The contributors do not claim that these cultural products constitute organized
- Contents:
- pt. I. Literature and the seeds of dissent
- pt. II. Cinema between creativity and censorship
- pt. III. Musical interventions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-19468-1
- 0-203-08491-8
- 1-283-87167-X
- 1-136-19469-X
- 9780203084915
- OCLC:
- 823388797
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