Arabic, self and identity
Subtitle: a study in conflict and displacement
By: Yasir Suleiman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780199747016; 9780199747009
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Seven fault zones and beyond: some methodological considerations. A landscape of seven fault zones; title: Beyond the fault zones; title: Arabic, self and autoethnography. From collective identity to the self; title: Using the fu', marking the self; title: Banning code-switching, marking the self; title: Conclusion : Arabic, self and autoethnography; title: Arabic, self and displacement. Arabic, self and displacement: out of place, between languages; title: Language, self and displacement : identity and gender; title: Language, war and trauma : from despotism to freedom; title: Language, self and globalisation; title: Language and self : displacement, trauma and globalization; title: Names, identity and conflict. "What's in a name?"; title: Personal names : shared values and shared identities; title: Personal names, identity and modernization; title: Personal names, identity and conflict; title: Personal names, identity and the diaspora; title: Personal names, identity and socio-political history; title: Toponyms, identity and conflict; title: Linguistic landscape, identity and modernity; title: Code-names, identity and conflict; title: Conclusion : names, identity and conflict; title: Conclusion.