ISBN:
9781137403650
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (261 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Re-Imagining the Other : Culture, Media, and Western-Muslim Intersections
DDC:
303.482182101767
Keywords:
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Abstract:
This volume addresses the conceptualizations of the Other carried out by Western and Muslim societies historically and in contemporary times through empirical case studies. Salah Basalamah, University of Ottawa, Canada Mahmoud Eid, University of Ottawa, Canada Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar, the University of Texas at Austin, USA Jack Goody, University of Cambridge, UK John M. Hobson, University of Sheffield, UK Yasmin Jiwani, Concordia University, Canada Karim H. Karim, Carleton University, Canada Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota, USA Richard Rubenstein, George Mason University, USA
Abstract:
〈p 〉This volume addresses the conceptualizations of the Other carried out by Western and Muslim societies historically and in contemporary times through empirical case studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Imagining the Other; Notes; References; 2 Religion and Civilization; 3 On the Eve of the Napoleonic Invasion: Arab Perceptions of the World; The World through Eastern Christian Eyes; The World through Eastern Muslim Eyes; By Way of Conclusion; The Lands of Christians; The Lands of Muslims; Notes; References; 4 Through Tinted Lenses: Iranian and Western Perceptions and Reconstructions of the Other; The Exotic West in Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing; Twentieth-Century Literary Portrayals of the West; When the Exotic Becomes Alien
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Western Perceptions of the Iranian OtherThe Othering of the Former Self; Notes; References; 5 The Clash of Civilizations 2.0: Race and Eurocentrism, Imperialism, and Anti-Imperialism; Introduction; The Post-1989 Anti-Imperialist "Clash of Civilizations 2.0" in the Post-1889 Scientific Racist Mirror; The Demographic Roots of Western Civilizational/White Racial Decline; Awarding the Barbaric Races/Civilizations High "Predatory" Agency; Constructing "Globalization-As-Barbaric Threat"; The Critique of Multiculturalism/Liberal Cosmopolitanism
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Anti-Imperialist Eurocentrism in the Anti-Imperialist Racist MirrorThe "Fundamental Clash" between East and West; Re-imagining the Dialogue of Civilizations: Muslim Origins of Western Civilization; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 Perceptions about Muslims in Western Societies; Introduction; Muslims Imagined by Western Societies: The Other; Muslims and Western (Mis)Perceptions: Homogeneity and Fanaticism; Muslims in Western Media: Anti-Western and Violent; Muslims Face Western Heat: Racism, Discrimination, and Dehumanization; Conclusion; Notes; References
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7 A Clash of Discourses: Femicides or Honor Killings?Introduction1; Gendered Violence-The Backdrop; Honor Killings; The Shafia Case; Observations; Victims and Perpetrators; Islam; Immigration; The Liberated West; Rescue; Counter-Discourses; Expert Testimony-How Culture Got in the Way; The Audience; Conclusion; Notes; References; 8 Islamic, Islamist, Moderate, Extremist: Imagining the Muslim Self and the Muslim Other; Islam, Muslim; Islamic, Islamic World, Islamicate Society; Moderate, Extremist, Radical; Fundamentalism, Islamism, Political Islam, Shia, Sunni
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Jihad, Mujahideen, Homegrown TerroristConclusion; Notes; References; 9 Religious Conflict, Empire-Building, and the Imagined Other; The Surprising Resurgence of Religious Conflict; Sacralization and Violence; The Context of Religious Conflict: Varieties of Empire-Building; Diabolical Imagery in Religiously Motivated Conflicts; Re-Imagining the Other: Religion as a Force for Conflict Resolution?; References; 10 Translating Otherness; Introduction; Understanding Translation; Knowledge and Translation; Qualities of Translation; The Media, Ethics, and Translation
Description / Table of Contents:
Process and Project of Translating Otherness
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