Africanism : Blacks in the medieval Arab imaginary / Nader Kadhem and translated by Amir Al-Azraki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kāẓim, Nādir, author.

Contributor:

Azraqī, ʻĀmir, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Investigating the history of anti-Black racism in several canonical texts of Arabic culture, Africanism explores how Black people are perceived, imagined, and represented in the Arab imaginary from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century in works of religion, literature, and history.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Translator's Preface

Introduction

Part One: Cultural Representations and the Imaginary Underpinnings

1 Blacks in the Arab Imaginary

2 The Absolute Other and the Power of Representation

Part Two: The Imaginary and the Literary Representation

3 Blacks in Narrative Representation

4 Representation of Blacks in Poetry

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kadhem, Nader Africanism

ISBN:

9780228019657

0228019656

9780228019664

0228019664

OCLC:

1373857318