Africanism Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary.

Africanism Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary.

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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kadhem, Nader
Other Authors: Al-Azraki, Amir
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Arabic literature > History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Black people in literature.
Africanisms in literature.
Racism > Arab countries > History.
Arabic literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Racism.
History.
Arab countries.
Table of 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

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