Immigration, Popular Culture, and the Re-routing of European Muslim Identity [electronic resource] /
Dotson-Renta, L.author.
Through readings of postcolonial theory and examination of post-9/11 novels, film, and hip-hop music, this book studies how North African immigrants to Spain translate and transfer cultural and political memory from one land to another.
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Cover; Immigration, Popular Culture, and the Re-routing of European Muslim Identity; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Memory, Return, and the "Other Side"; Introduction; Cuentos de las dos orillas: Writing between Morocco and Spain; Performing Identity: El Astillero; El Traslado: Imagining Departure and Return; Being and Leaving: The Traslado of Memory and Self; Spain in French: Tahar ben Jelloun's Partir; Conclusion; Romancing Europe: Postcolonial Foundational Fictions; Introduction; ¿Donde estás, Ahmed? The (Dis)location of Romance; Traslado and Transgressions of the Transitive Body
L'Enfant Endormi: Re- turning the NationConclusion; Europe via Spain: Media, Islam, and the Sounds of Immigrant Identity; Introduction; Mapping Music: The Raval Bridges Europe; Crossing the Strait: Abd Al- Malik and the French Connection; Lyrical Belongings: El Moro and the Hip- Hop Umma; Conclusion; Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Through readings of postcolonial theory and examination of post-9/11 novels, film, and hip-hop music, this book studies how North African immigrants to Spain translate and transfer cultural and political memory from one land to another.
Europe—Politics and government.
Social policy.
Emigration and immigration.
European literature.
European Politics.
Social Policy.
Migration.
European Literature.