| Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity Contributor(s): Civantos, Christina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791466027 ISBN-13: 9780791466025 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: Examines the presence of Arabs and the Arab world in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Argentine literature by juxtaposing works by Argentines of European descent and those written by Arab immigrants in Argentina. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - History | Latin America - South America - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern |
| Dewey: 982.004 |
| Series: Suny Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 283 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |