Between Argentines and Arabs
Subtitle: Argentine orientalism, Arab immigrants, and the writing of identity
By: Christina Civantos.
Series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Arabs -- Argentina -- History.; Immigrants -- Argentina -- History.; Argentine literature -- History and criticism.; Arabs in literature.; Argentina -- Civilization -- Arab influences.
Description: "Between Argentines and Arabs is a groundbreaking contribution to two growing fields: the study of immigrants and minorities in Latin America and the study of the Arab diaspora. As a literary and cultural study, this book examines the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sarmiento, the gaucho-Bedouin barbarian and the performance of barbarism; title: Lugones' El payador and the legacy of Moorish blood; title: Hallar and Yaser custom-build the fictions of the nation; title: Menem's self-stylization as Arab gaucho; title: Euro-Argentine orientalisms, before and after the watershed of immigration; title: Arab Argentine re-presentations of the Orient : on the border between history and fiction; title: The Arab/Argentine knot, into the 1990's with Morandini's take on Menem; title: Discursive copies, discursive differences : the disruption of the performance of Argentine national language and identity; title: Another dissonant performance of Argentineness, or provincial Argentine polyphony in the 1960's; title: Performing an other tongue : language-based Arab identity and the displacement of 'pure' Arabic.