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Resistance in contemporary Middle Eastern cultures : literature, cinema and music /
This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of '...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;
44. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures Literature, Cinema and Music; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Part I: Literature and the Seeds of Dissent; 1. Alaa Al-Aswany and the Desire for Revolution; 2. Saudi Women Novelists and the Quest for Freedom: Raja Alem's the Doves' Necklace; 3. Yasar Kemal's Island of Resistance; 4. Four Narrations and an "Imagined Community"; 5. Articulations of Resistance in Modern Persian Literature; 6. Iranian Drama and the Aesthetics of Gender Relations and Religiosity: Mohammad Rahmanian's Ashaqeh.
- Part II: Cinema Between Creativity and Censorship7. Resisting Pleasure? Political Opposition and the Body in Arab Cinema; 8. Reviving the Palestine Narrative on Film: Negotiating the Future Through the Past and Present in Route 181; 9. Azza El-Hassan and Impossible Filmmaking in Israel/palestine; 10. Gender, Family and Home(Land) in Contemporary Turkish Cinema: A Comparative Analysis of Films by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Reha Erdem and ümit ünal; 11. Madness, Resistance and Iranian Cinema; Part III: Musical Interventions; 12. Rapping and Remapping the Tunisian Revolution.
- 13. Singing the Unspeakable, Resisting Power: Nazan öncel, Popular Music and Women's Rights in Modern Turkey14. "An Eastern Child of a Western Invasion": Questions of Identity, Socio-Political Commentaries and Innovation in Tehran's Unoffi Cial Rock Music Scene; 15. Carving a Space for Female Solo Singing in Post-Revolution Iran; Contributors; Index.