Black-Arab encounters in literature and film /
"This book investigates how representations of Black Africans have been negotiated over time in Arabic literature and film. The book offers direct readings of a representative selection of primary texts, shedding light on the divergent ways these authors understood race across different genres,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2022
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| Series: | Routledge African studies ;
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| Summary: | "This book investigates how representations of Black Africans have been negotiated over time in Arabic literature and film. The book offers direct readings of a representative selection of primary texts, shedding light on the divergent ways these authors understood race across different genres, including pre-Islamic classical poetry, polemical essays, travel narratives, novels, and films. Starting with the first recognized Black-Arab poet Antara Ibn Shaddad (580 C.E.) and extending right up to the present day, the works examined illuminate the changes in consciousness that attended Black Africans as they negotiated their position in Arab society. In a twist to Edward Said's Orientalism, the book argues that scholars in the Middle East and North Africa generated a hierarchical representational discourse themselves, one equally predicated on the Self-Other binary. However, it also demonstrates that Arab racial discourse is not a linear rhetoric but changes according to history, political circumstances and ideologies such as tribal politics, the Shu'ubiyya movement, nationalism, and imperialism. Challenging fundamental assumptions of Black Diaspora studies and post-colonial studies, this book will be of interest to scholars of the African diaspora, Arabic literature, Middle East studies and critical race studies"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( xvi, 146 pages.) : 1 online resource (xvi, 146 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0429462972 0429871228 0429871236 0429871244 9780429462979 9780429871221 9780429871238 9780429871245 |
| Access: | ProQuest Multi-User |