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Arab American Aesthetics - Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre (Hardcover)
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Arab American Aesthetics - Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies on Middle Eastern Diasporas
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Arab American Aesthetics enlists a wide range of voices to explore,
if not tentatively define, what could constitute Arab American
aesthetics in literature, material culture, film, and theatre. This
book seeks to unsettle current conversations within Arab American
Studies that neglect aesthetics as a set of choices and
constraints. Rather than divorce aesthetics from politics, the book
sutures the two more closely together by challenging the causal
relationship so often attributed to them. The conversations include
formal choices, but also extend to the broad idea of what makes a
work distinctly Arab American. That is, what about its beauty,
ugliness, sublimity, or humor is explicitly tied to it as part of a
tradition of Arab American arts? The book opens up the ways that we
discuss Arab American literary and fine arts, so that we understand
how Arab American identity and experience begets Arab American
artistic enterprise. Split into three sections, the first offers a
set of theoretical propositions for understanding aesthetics that
traverse Arab American cultural production. The second section
focuses on material culture as a way to think through the creation
of objects as an aesthetic enterprise. The final section looks at
narratives in theatre and how the impact of such a medium has the
potential to recreate in both senses of the word: play and
invention. By shifting the conversation from identity politics to
the relationship between politics and aesthetics, this book
provides an important contribution to Arab American studies. It
will also appeal to students and scholars of ethnic studies, museum
studies, and cultural studies.
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