| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Popular culture and the aesthetics of political resistance -- pt. 2. Gender politics, the popular, social resistance -- pt. 3. Tradition and the popular : new forms and trends -- pt. 4. Cultural hegemony : popular representations of the Middle East and the US -- pt. 5. Popular culture and revolution : the voice of dissent |
| Summary |
This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance, photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the volume span an array of specializations ranging across literary, postcolonial, gender, media, and Middle Eastern studies and contextualize their views within a larger historical and political moment, analyzing the emergence of a popular expression in the Middle East and North Africa region in recent years, and drawing conclusions pertaining to the direction of popular culture within a geopolitical context. The importance of this book lies in presenting a fresh perspective on popular culture, combining media that are not often combined and offering a topical examination of recent popular production, aiming to counter stereotypical representations of Islamophobia and otherness by bringing together the perspectives of scholars from different cultural backgrounds and disciplines. The collection shows that popular culture can effect changes and alter perceptions and stereotypes, constituting an area where people of different ethnicities, genders, and orientations can find common grounds for expression and connection |
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This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and?cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance,?photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the volume span an array of specializations ranging across literary, postcolonial, gender, media, and Middle Eastern studies and contextualize their views within a larger historical and political moment, an |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Popular culture -- Middle East
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Popular culture -- Africa, North
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Civilization
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Popular culture
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Postkolonialismus
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Massenkultur
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Populaire cultuur.
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Middle East -- Civilization -- 21st century
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Africa, North -- Civilization -- 21st century
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North Africa
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Middle East
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Naher Osten
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Nordafrika
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Midden-Oosten.
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Noord-Afrika.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
El Hamamsy, Walid, 1970-
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Soliman, Mounira, 1967-
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| ISBN |
9781136228087 |
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113622808X |
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9780203098653 |
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020309865X |
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