ISBN:
9780228019664
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (194 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kāẓim, Nādir Africanism
DDC:
305.8960174927
Keywords:
Arabic literature-History and criticism
;
Africanisms in literature
;
Arabic literature
;
Black people in literature
;
Literature, Medieval
;
Race relations
;
Racism
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
History
;
Arab countries
;
Afrikaner
;
Schwarze
;
Rezeption
;
Arabisch
;
Literatur
Abstract:
Investigating the history of anti-Black racism in several canonical texts of Arabic culture, Africanism explores how Black people are perceived, imagined, and represented in the Arab imaginary from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century in works of religion, literature, and history.
Abstract:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Cultural Representations and the Imaginary Underpinnings -- 1 Blacks in the Arab Imaginary -- 2 The Absolute Other and the Power of Representation -- Part Two: The Imaginary and the Literary Representation -- 3 Blacks in Narrative Representation -- 4 Representation of Blacks in Poetry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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