UID:
almafu_9960177765902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (306 p.)
ISBN:
3-8253-7348-7
Serie:
American studies - a monograph series ; volume 199
Inhalt:
Hauptbeschreibung This volume focuses on the literature and culture of Arabs living in the United States who have gained new prominence after 9/11. For a proper assessment of their situation it seeks to provide basic information on the history and transculturation of immigrants from different parts of the Arab world. The contributions, which result from a teacher training conference, present survey articles on Arab American literature, politics and immigration laws, a case study of the transnational network of Arab families, discussions of Arab American fiction, film, theatre and po
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Table of Contents; Preface; GHADA QUAISI AUDI: Challenges Facing the Arab American Community from a Legal Perspective; ROLF D. THEIS: Muslim Americans in American Society - and in the German Classroom; LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ: Arab American Literature: Origins and Developments; ZOU LANFANG AND YU YUPING: Constructing Selfhood in Three Spaces: The Fluid Subjectivity Embodied in El-Saadawi's ""My Life""; MITA BANERJEE: Arab Americans in Literature and the Media; MITA BANERJEE AND GÜNTHER SOMMERSCHUH: From Sheikh to Terrorist? Arab Characters in American Film
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HEIKE RAPHAEL-HERNANDEZ: "Yes, I will blow up this place, but first I have my coffee" - Representations of Arab Americans in Post-9/11 American FilmsANNEKA ESCH-VAN KAN: Amazing Acrobatics of Language - The Theatre of Yussef El Guindi; SILKE SCHMIDT: Arabian Dance in the Promised Land: Hyphenating Identity in Contemporary Arab(-)American Women's Literature; BIRGIT M. BAURIDL: "Rowing for Palestine," Performing the Other: Suheir Hammad, Mark Gerban and Multiple Consciousness; ALEX LUBIN: "Fear of an Arab Planet": The Sounds and Rhythms of Afro-Arab Internationalism
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ANTON ESCHER: Global Diaspora Sphere - the Arab Experience: The Success Story of a Syrian VillageOMAR KHALIDI: Mosques in North America
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 3-8253-5891-7
Sprache:
Deutsch