Black Arab Encounters In Literature And Film
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Black Arab Encounters In Literature And Film
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Author : Touria Khannous
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-27
Black Arab Encounters In Literature And Film written by Touria Khannous and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-27 with Social Science categories.
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. Blacks and Arabs have had tangled relationships that are based not only on race but also on kinship and solidarity due to trade and other types of connections. Challenging fundamental assumptions of Black Diaspora studies and postcolonial studies, this book will be of interest to scholars of the African diaspora, Arabic literature, Middle East studies, and critical race studies.
Black Arab Encounters In Literature And Film
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Author : Touria Khannous
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-27
Black Arab Encounters In Literature And Film written by Touria Khannous and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-27 with Social Science categories.
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. Blacks and Arabs have had tangled relationships that are based not only on race but also on kinship and solidarity due to trade and other types of connections. Challenging fundamental assumptions of Black Diaspora studies and postcolonial studies, this book will be of interest to scholars of the African diaspora, Arabic literature, Middle East studies, and critical race studies.
African Pasts Presents And Futures
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Author : Touria Khannous
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-10-17
African Pasts Presents And Futures written by Touria Khannous and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of African women authors, who position themselves within the contexts of Islam, feminism, nationalism, modernity, and global and postcolonial politics, thus engaging in the construction of socio-political platforms for reform in their home countries. The book explores different aspects of women’s agency at the political, cultural, social, religious and aesthetic level, and highlights their civil society activism and push for legal reform. It also traces their opinions on a range of social and political questions and underscores fundamental shifts in their positions and concerns through the different generations.
Rosa Damascena
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Author : Barbara Michalak-Pikulska
language : en
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Release Date : 2024-09-09
Rosa Damascena written by Barbara Michalak-Pikulska and has been published by V&R Unipress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Due to the diversity of perspectives and methodologies within the relative uniformity of the subject, this collection of papers offers a rich overview of the multidisciplinary research on Arabic literature. The book includes two thematic parts. The first of them pertains to studies on Arabic literature, more precisely, on historical chronicles concerning the First Crusade, one of al-Ğāḥiẓ's Treatise and also Modern Egyptian, Moroccan and Omani literary production. The second section of the volume contains papers on Semitic languages: Modern Hebrew, Maltese, Classical, Modern Standard, Egyptian and Lebanese Arabic. The volume is devoted to Elżbieta Gorska.
Black Thought
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Author : Victor Peterson II
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-02-27
Black Thought written by Victor Peterson II and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-27 with Social Science categories.
This book uncovers a logical fallacy underlying Afro-Pessimism and provides a formal theory of Articulation, teasing out new reflections on race and Blackness. Afro-Pessimism maintains that Blacks, subject to a subordinate position in society, suffer a cultural death. In this monograph, Victor Peterson rejects this theory, demonstrating that Black subjectivity is inherently multiple, articulating identities appropriate to the contexts in which it finds itself and yet remaining continuous across its individual but not mutually exclusive instantiations. Peterson argues that we should consider the mechanisms that produce the conditions under which individuals obtain positions of either dominance or subordination. By providing a working logical foundation for Articulation theory within cultural studies, Peterson encourages us to rethink the politics of racial identity and subjectivity in contemporary social life. Encouraging critical thought about the arbitrarily determined but instrumentally objective of our global racial order, this book will be of great interest to scholars of Black Studies, sociology, cultural studies, and philosophy.
Is Byzantine Studies A Colonialist Discipline
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Author : Benjamin Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2023-05-26
Is Byzantine Studies A Colonialist Discipline written by Benjamin Anderson and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-26 with Art categories.
Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion. In this volume, scholars of art, history, and literature address the entanglements, past and present, among the academic discipline of Byzantine Studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism. Starting with the premise that Byzantium and the field of Byzantine studies are simultaneously colonial and colonized, the chapters address topics ranging from the material basis of philological scholarship and its uses in modern politics to the colonial plunder of art and its consequences for curatorial practice in the present. The book concludes with a bibliography that serves as a foundation for a coherent and systematic critical historiography. Bringing together insights from scholars working in different disciplines, regions, and institutions, Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? urges practitioners to reckon with the discipline’s colonialist, imperialist, and white supremacist history. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Andrea Myers Achi, Nathanael Aschenbrenner, Bahattin Bayram, Averil Cameron, Stephanie R. Caruso, Şebnem Dönbekci, Hugh G. Jeffery, Anthony Kaldellis, Matthew Kinloch, Nicholas S. M. Matheou, Maria Mavroudi, Zeynep Olgun, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Jake Ransohoff, Alexandra Vukovich, Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, and Arielle Winnik.
Seeing The Unseen
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Author : Kholoud Baher Samir Hussein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Seeing The Unseen written by Kholoud Baher Samir Hussein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
'Seeing the Unseen: Encounters with the (In)Visible in Arabic Literature, Film and Culture' is a study on invisible things being made visible. More specifically, I consider visual encounters with invisible things - from 'spirits', to 'time', to 'meanings' - by drawing on Ibn Arabi's theories on the Imagination: as place, process and faculty of perception. A medieval Sufi philosopher, poet, theologian and mystic born in the twelfth century, Ibn Arabi's theories on the Imagination are supplemented and read alongside a chorus of perspectives, ranging from classical Arabic and Greek philosophies of the imagination, art and dream-theory, to modern-day visual studies, and ethnographies of folklore and popular, lived religion. Meanwhile, my primary case studies, which serve as the focus of each chapter, are drawn from contemporary Egyptian literature and film. In an attempt to explore the relevance of the trope of Ibn Arabi's Imagination to modern Egyptian literature, film and culture, I focus, in my case studies, on moments of encounter with the image. In this instance, as an interpretation of Ibn Arabi's theories, the term 'image' is used to encompass things which are suspended in moments of in-between-ness: between body and spirit, materiality and immateriality and, of course, visibility and invisibility. While the study considers political, aesthetic and moral stakes in each of the individual chapters, the project more broadly seeks to engage the fields of literature, film, religion, and visual studies. More specifically, Seeing the Unseen is an interdisciplinary enterprise, aiming to use literature and film as vehicles through which to engage with conversations started by ethnographers, art scholars and cultural historians of Islam and lived religion, specifically in Egypt. In particular, Seeing the Unseen aims to make a case for the complex role of the 'image' and visual experience in Islamic history and culture. I use literature and film to continue to challenge the orthodox notion within Islamic and non-Islamic circles that, after the destruction of the idols of the Ka_ba in 630 C.E., there is no longer a place for the mediating 'image' in Islam's relationship to the divine.
History Below The Global
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Author : Lorenzo Kamel
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-04-02
History Below The Global written by Lorenzo Kamel and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-02 with History categories.
History Below the Global aims to foster an entangled knowledge of global history, and to place "others" at the centre stage, to better understand the fluid world which we inhabit. Relying on primary sources in seven languages and books written by hundreds of African, Asian, Middle Eastern and South American scholars, Lorenzo Kamel examines the coloniality of power in historical research and sheds light on the largely neglected roles of the "others" and their modernities in history. The book provides three elements combined. Firstly, a thorough analysis of the process of accumulation (“knowledge piece by piece”) which underpins some of the major achievements in human history. Secondly, a view on pre-colonial perspectives and the process through which the latter have been swallowed up by Eurocentric and solipsistic perceptions. Lastly, a study of the roots and outcomes of colonialisms and their echoes in our present. These three elements are addressed by combining multiple methodologies and approaches, in the awareness that the history analysed, as well as the historiographical trajectories that underlie it, are ultimately inter-penetrable, as well as themselves the result of a process of accumulation. History Below the Global challenges the view that, first and foremost, the “West”, for bad and for good, is and was the centre: the proactive actor which did and undid. This volume will be of value to all those interested in global history, the history of colonialism, post-colonial studies, modern and contemporary history.
The Pan African Imperative
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Author : Michael Williams
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-14
The Pan African Imperative written by Michael Williams and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-14 with Political Science categories.
This book argues that the principles of Pan-Africanism are more important than ever in ensuring the liberation of the people Africa, those at home and abroad, and the rapid development of the African continent. The writings and practice of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first post-independence prime minister and president, were key in laying out a vision for post-independence Africa. Now, in an effort to counter the deluge of neo-liberal thinking that has engulfed so much of the debate on African development in recent decades, Michael Williams illuminates just how important a role an Nkrumaist intellectual framework can play in providing an accurate diagnosis of, and effective solution to, Africa’s development crisis. This is done by examining Nkrumah’s vision of the critical role Pan-Africanism must play in the development of the continent. Raising vitally important questions about Africa’s development and the quality of life of its populations, this book will be a key text for researchers of African politics, development studies, and the Pan-African movement.
The De Africanization Of African Art
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Author : Denis Ekpo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-12
The De Africanization Of African Art written by Denis Ekpo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-12 with Art categories.
This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa’s creative heritage. Africanism, which is driven by a traumatic response to colonialism in Africa, has an almost unshakable stranglehold on the content, stylistics, and meaning of art in Africa. Post-African aesthetics insists on the need to move beyond this counter-colonial self-consciousness and considerably change, re-work and enlarge the ground, principles and mission of artistic imagination and creativity in Africa. This book critiques and dismantles the tropes of Africanism and Afrocentrism, providing the criteria and methodology for a Post-African art theory or Post-African aesthetics. Grounded initially in essays by Denis Ekpo, the father of Post-Africanism, the book then explores a range of applications and interpretations of Post-African theory to the art forms and creative practices in Africa. With particular reference to South Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers across the disciplines of Art, Literature, Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology, and African Studies.