Between Argentines and Arabs - Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity (Hardcover, Annotated edition)

Between Argentines and Arabs is a groundbreaking contribution to two growing fields: the study of immigrants and minorities in Latin America and the study of the Arab diaspora. As a literary and cultural study, this book examines the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Using methods drawn from literary analysis and cultural studies, Christina Civantos shows that the Arab presence is twofold: "the Arab" and "the Orient" are an imagined figure and space within the texts produced by Euro-Argentine intellectuals; and immigrants from the Arab world are an actual community, producing their own texts within the multiethnic Argentine nation. This book is both a literary history--of Argentine Orientalist literature and Arab-Argentine immigrant literature--and a critical analysis of how the formation of identities in these two bodies of work is interconnected.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	2006
Authors:	Christina Civantos
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	283
Edition:	Annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-6601-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-7914-6601-9
Barcode:	9780791466018

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