Arab Brazil

Fictions of Ternary Orientalism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Arab-Brazilian relations have been largely invisible to area studies and Comparative Literature scholarship. Arab Brazil is the first book of its kind to highlight the representation of Arab and Muslim immigrants in Brazilian literature and popular culture since the early twentieth century, revealing anxieties and contradictions in the country's ideologies of national identity. Author Waïl S. Hassan analyzes these representations in a century of Brazilian novels, short stories, and telenovelas. He shows how the Arab East works paradoxically as a site of otherness (different language, culture, and religion) and solidarity (cultural, historical, demographic, and geopolitical ties). Hassan explores the differences between colonial Orientalism's binary structure of Self/Other, East/West, and colonizer/colonized, on the one hand; and on the other hand Brazilian Orientalism's ternary structure, which defines the country's identity in relation to both North and East.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-19
Mått:221 x 150 x 30 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197688762

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Waïl S. S. Hassan is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Among other books, he is the author of Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions, and Portuguese-to-Arabic translator of Alberto Mussa's Lughz al-qaf. Hassan is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association.

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Arab Brazil is a theoretically sophisticated and elegantly written assessment of what Brazilian and Arab-Brazilian writings and television tell us about how Brazilian culture understands the Arab world and how the presence of Brazilians of Arab origin highlights the limits of the Brazilian ideal of mistura. On the one hand, Hassan's study astutely explains Brazilian Orientalism as one that is ternary, in the sense that it is not based on binary opposition, but on a triangulation in which Europe and North America remain at the apex. On the other hand, this book demonstrates that many of the manifestations of Brazilian Arabness, whether mathematics textbooks, novels, or television series, due to their stereotyping and Islamophobia, point to the fact that mistura is still only aspirational.

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Note on Translation and Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction: Mistura and Ternary Orientalism 1. Oriental Wisdom: Malba Tahan and Humberto de Campos 2. Merchants to Landowners: Cecílio Carneiro and Permínio Asfora 3. Arab Bahia: Jorge Amado 4. Parable of Integration: Raduan Nassar 5. Amazonian Orient: Milton Hatoum 6. Feline Mermaid: Ana Miranda 7. Islam on Primetime TV: O Clone 8. Shahrazad in the Tropics: Nélida Piñon 9. Brazilian Mu'allaqa: Alberto Mussa 10. Al-Andalus Re-Imagined: Gilberto Abrão and João Almino 11. Syrian Refugees: Órfãos da terra Conclusion: It's All in the Kibbeh Works Cited Index