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New Body Politics - Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States (Paperback)
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New Body Politics - Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics
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In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American
landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic
cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns
becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied
experiences transform from being anecdotal to having social and
political significance? What can the experience of corporeality
offer social and political discourse? And, how does that discourse
change when those bodies belong to Arab Americans and African
Americans? Theri A. Pickens discusses a range of literary,
cultural, and archival material where narratives emphasize embodied
experience to examine how these experiences constitute Arab
Americans and African Americans as social and political subjects.
Pickens argues that Arab American and African American narratives
rely on the body's fragility, rather than its exceptional strength
or emotion, to create urgent social and political critiques. The
creators of these narratives find potential in mundane experiences
such as breathing, touch, illness, pain, and death. Each chapter in
this book focuses on one of these everyday embodied experiences and
examines how authors mobilize that fragility to create social and
political commentary. Pickens discusses how the authors' focus on
quotidian experiences complicates their critiques of the nation
state, domestic and international politics, exile, cultural mores,
and the medical establishment. New Body Politics participates in a
vibrant interdisciplinary conversation about cross-ethnic studies,
American literature, and Arab American literature. Using
intercultural analysis, Pickens explores issues of the body and
representation that will be relevant to fields as varied as
Political Science, African American Studies, Arab American Studies,
and Disability Studies.
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