Arab Brazil: Fictions of Ternary Orientalism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780197688762)

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.

Author: Waïl S. Hassan
ISBN-10: 0197688764
ISBN-13: 9780197688762
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2024
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 1.20d