Arab American aesthetics : literature, material culture, film and theatre / edited by Therí A. Pickens.
Arab American Aesthetics enlists a wide range of voices to explore, if not tentatively define, what could constitute Arab American aesthetics in literature, material culture, film, and theatre. This book seeks to unsettle current conversations within Arab American Studies that neglect aesthetics as...
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2018.
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| Series: | Routledge studies on Middle Eastern diasporas ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: what's (identity) politics got to do with it? / by Therí A. Pickens
- Part I. Literary aesthetics. 1. The poetics of torture in Philip Metres' Sand opera / by Carol N. Fadda ; 2. An aesthetics of haunting: negotiating borders and loss in Arab American poetry / by Sirene Harb ; 3. Unfixing the autobiographical subject: fragmentation as aesthetics and identity in Rabih Alameddine's I, the divine / by Leila Moayeri Pazargadi
- Part II. Material culture. Threading through the outerspace of diaspora: traditional Palestinian embroidery and Arab American aesthetics of challenge & belonging / by Rasha Abdulhadi ; 4. "Serving Arabness": imagery and imagination of Arab-themed restaurants / by Matthew Jaber Stiffler
- Part III. Film & theatre. 5. Beyond first responders: politics, racism, and the aesthetics of Arab American theatre / by Jamil Khoury ; 6. Acting Arab/Arab acting: reclaiming the Arab American identity through aesthetic choices / by Michael Malek Najjar.