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MACMILLAN Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.

Name: Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.
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Product Description Imagining Arab Womanhood examines orientalist images of Arab womanhood in the United States since the turn of the twentieth century, exploring, in particular, representations of belly dancers, harem girls, and veiled women. Through semiotic analysis, Jarmakani demonstrates that these images have functioned as nostalgic placeholders for pressing, yet unarticulated concerns about shifting spatial and temporal realities within the contexts of expansionism/modernization and imperialism/late capitalism. Calling these representations cultural mythologies, Jarmakani maps them onto dominant American narratives of power and progress, insisting on an analysis that understands them to be artifacts shaped by the interests of the American contexts in which they circulate. Imagining Arab Womanhood is a vital addition to conversations about representation, race, and gender. Review "This is an outstanding, truly innovative, and very timely project that explores predominant images of Arab women in U.S. popular culture." - Nadine Naber, Program in American Culture and Department of Women's Studies, University of Michigan, USA Book Description Examines the representation of cultural mythologies in relation to dominant U.S. ideologies of power and progress About the Author AMIRA JARMAKANI is Assistant Professor in the Women's Studies Institute at Georgia State University, USA.

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Brand: MACMILLAN
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0230604722
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts > Dance
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 19 May 2008
Listed Since: 28 September 2007

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