{"product_id":"between-the-middle-east-and-ella-habiba-shohat-9780472069446","title":"Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e traces the production and circulation of discourses about \"the Middle East\" across various cultural sites, against the historical backdrop of cross-Atlantic Mahjar flows. The book highlights the fraught and ambivalent situation of Arabs\/Muslims in the Americas, where they are at once celebrated and demonized, integrated and marginalized, simultaneously invisible and spectacularly visible. The essays cover such themes as Arab hip-hop's transnational imaginary; gender\/sexuality and the Muslim digital diaspora; patriotic drama and the media's War on Terror; the global negotiation of the Prophet Mohammad cartoons controversy; the Latin American paradoxes of Turcophobia\/Turcophilia; the ambiguities of the bellydancing fad; French and American commodification of Rumi spirituality; the reception of Iranian memoirs as cultural domestication; and the politics of translation of Turkish novels into English. Taken together, the essays analyze the hegemonic discourses that position \"the Middle East\" as a consumable exoticized object, while also developing complex understandings of self-representation in literature, cinema\/TV, music, performance, visual culture, and digital spaces. Charting the shifting significations of differing and overlapping forms of Orientalism, the volume addresses Middle Eastern diasporic practices from a transnational perspective that brings postcolonial cultural studies methods to bear on Arab American studies, Middle Eastern studies, and Latin American studies. \u003ci\u003eBetween the Middle East and the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e disentangles the conventional separation of regions, moving beyond the binarist notion of \"here\" and \"there\" to imaginatively reveal the thorough interconnectedness of cultural geographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ella Habiba Shohat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472069446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472069446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2013","brand":"Ella Habiba Shohat","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437900968191,"sku":"9780472069446","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ad10ecab-bed4-479e-8150-be600f7f20ad.jpg?v=1777167541","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/between-the-middle-east-and-ella-habiba-shohat-9780472069446","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}