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Becoming Arab in London : performativity and the undoing of identity /
Annotation
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Everyday Arabness
- Tresspassing: the reach of performativity
- Re-reading sex and temperament
- Getting stuck between performance and performativity
- Performative race: the injunctions "to be" ethnic in Britain
- 1. Critical junctures in the making of Arab London
- Struggles of the homeland: students and activists 1924-73
- London for sale: playboy princes and the Petrodollar Invasion
- The Stray Dogs in London: political purges 1977-89
- War and the making of British Arabs
- Migration, ethnic counting and the racialisation of Arabness
- Making and unmaking Arab London.
- 2. Learning to be Arab: growing up in London
- The war at school
- Learning to be an Arab man
- Gendering narratives and Arabs in hiding
- (Re)citing masculine heroism
- Learning to be an Arab woman
- One performance, competing structures of subjection
- Contested recitations of identitarian authenticity
- 3. Going for Shisha: doing ethnicity, gender and class
- Shisha: the aromas of gender, ethnicity and morality
- The walk of shame
- Our kind of people, our kind of place
- 4. Dancing class: choreographing Arabness in London
- Emirs and emiras: partying with the stereotype of Arab wealth
- No sex please we're Arabs
- Assuming a position on dance
- Raqs: performance, comportment and sexuality
- The dancing men: gender parody or ambiguity?
- 5. Reclaiming the Orient through the diasporic gaze
- Orientalism in art: A1-Qanoon
- An Orient in my likeness
- The encrypted others of melancholia
- 6. Performativity and the undoing of identity
- A performative reading of becoming Arab in London.