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Between Argentines and Arabs : Argentine orientalism, Arab immigrants, and the writing of identity
- Title
- Between Argentines and Arabs : Argentine orientalism, Arab immigrants, and the writing of identity / Christina Civantos.
- Author
- Civantos, Christina, 1970-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
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- Description
- xiii, 269 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.
- Contents
- Sarmiento, the gaucho-Bedouin barbarian and the performance of barbarism -- Lugones' El payador and the legacy of Moorish blood -- Hallar and Yaser custom-build the fictions of the nation -- Menem's self-stylization as Arab gaucho -- Euro-Argentine orientalisms, before and after the watershed of immigration -- Arab Argentine re-presentations of the Orient : on the border between history and fiction --
- The Arab/Argentine knot, into the 1990's with Morandini's take on Menem -- Discursive copies, discursive differences : the disruption of the performance of Argentine national language and identity -- Another dissonant performance of Argentineness, or provincial Argentine polyphony in the 1960's -- Performing an other tongue : language-based Arab identity and the displacement of 'pure' Arabic.
- Call Number
- JHE 06-87
- ISBN
- 0791466019 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004030456
- OCLC
- 57349089
- Author
- Civantos, Christina, 1970-
- Title
- Between Argentines and Arabs : Argentine orientalism, Arab immigrants, and the writing of identity / Christina Civantos.
- Imprint
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
- Series
- SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JHE 06-87