ISBN:
9780415735216
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (187 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Series on Identity Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version New Body Politics : Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to having social and political significance? What can the experience of corporeality offer social and political discourse? And, how does that discourse change when those bodies belong to Arab Americans and African Americans?Therí A. Pickens discusses a range of literary, cultural, and archival material w
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figure; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Respirating Resistance: Suheir Hammad's Invocation of Breath; 2 Try a Little Tenderness: Tactilic Experience in Danzy Senna and Alicia Erian; 3 Unfitting and Not Belonging: Feeling Embodied and Being Displaced in Rabih Alameddine's Fiction; 4 Beyond 1991: Magic Johnson and the Limits of HIV/AIDS Activism; 5 The Big C Meets the Big O: Pain and Pleasure in Breast Cancer Narratives; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
