ISBN:
9780313379628
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (879 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Muslims and American Popular Culture
DDC:
305.6/97
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Volume One: Entertainment and Digital Culture; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Islam in America: A Look at Popular Culture; Part 1: Comedy and Theater; 1. "There's Nothing Funny about Your People": Muslim-American Humor in the Post-9/11 World; 2. The Struggle for Transcendence: Iraqi Muslim Women in Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire; Part 2: Television; 3. Gender Roles and Marriage in Muslim-American Reality TV; 4. Remapping Terrorism Stereotypes in Battlestar Galactica; 5. The Big Conceal: Representations of Hijab in Little Mosque on the Prairie
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Little Mosque on the Prairie: Religious Education on the AirwavesPart 3: Film; 7. The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination; 8. The Message: From Radical Terror to "Old But Good"; 9. Marked Off: Hollywood's Untold Story of Arabs, Muslims, and Camels; 10. Beyond Muezzins and Mujahideen: Middle-Eastern Voices in Post-9/11 Hollywood Movies; Part 4: Popular Fiction and Poetry; 11. Normalizing Islam: Representations of Good and Bad Muslims in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner; 12. Muslim Stereotypes in John Updike's Terrorist
Description / Table of Contents:
13. What Can a Pakistani-American Novel Tell Us about America's "Terrorist Threat from Within"?14. The Enduring Allure of Rumi and Sufism in American Literature; 15. Thoroughly Muslim Mystic: Rewriting Rumi in America; 16. Sufis and Converts: American Muslim Visions of Islam; Part 5: Fantasy, Comics, and Digital Culture; 17. The Influence of Muslims and Islam in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Comics; 18. Frank Miller's 300, before and after 9/11; Part 6: Music; 19. Sonic Bridges: The Rise of American-Muslim Music; 20. Cut from the Same Cloth: American and Palestinian Hip Hop
Description / Table of Contents:
21. Muslim Filipino Traditions in Filipino American Popular CultureIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Editors and Contributors; Volume Two: Print Culture and Identity; Contents; Part 1: Black Muslims, Black Power, and the Nation of Islam; 1. "Muhammad's Land": Ideology, Identity, and Cultural Production in the Nation of Islam; 2. The Influence of Malcolm X and Islam on Black Identity and Naming Practices in American Culture; 3. Influences of Malcolm X on Sports, Music, and the Global Muslim Community
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 2: Journalism and Digital Culture4. A Century of Ignorance: The Influence of British Attitudes on U.S. Popular Perceptions of War in Afghanistan (1880s-1980s); 5. American Heroes and Iranian Villains in "Straightforward" American News Reports; 6. Reading the Qur'an in College: The Chapel Hill Tempest; 7. "Good Muslim/Bad Muslim": Media Coverage of the Fort Hood Shooting and American Muslims in the War on Terror; 8. Covered: Representations of Muslim Women in Azizah Magazine; 9. American Muslims in Cyberspace; Part 3: Trans/National Trends and Issues
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Shifts in Evangelical Attitudes toward American Muslims after 9/11
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Volume 1.Introduction: Islam in America: A look at popular culture
,
Volume 2.Part 1.Black Muslims, Black Power, and the Nation of Islam:1. "Muhammad's Land" : Ideology, identity, and cultural production in the Nation of Islam
Permalink