Between Argentines and Arabs : Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity (Suny series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

Civantos, Christina

State University of New York Press（2005/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 283 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791466018
• DDC分類 982.004927

Full Description

Examines the presence of Arabs and the Arab world in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Argentine literature by juxtaposing works by Argentines of European descent and those written by Arab immigrants in Argentina.

Between Argentines and Arabs is a groundbreaking contribution to two growing fields: the study of immigrants and minorities in Latin America and the study of the Arab diaspora. As a literary and cultural study, this book examines the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s.

Using methods drawn from literary analysis and cultural studies, Christina Civantos shows that the Arab presence is twofold: "the Arab" and "the Orient" are an imagined figure and space within the texts produced by Euro-Argentine intellectuals; and immigrants from the Arab world are an actual community, producing their own texts within the multiethnic Argentine nation. This book is both a literary history-of Argentine Orientalist literature and Arab-Argentine immigrant literature-and a critical analysis of how the formation of identities in these two bodies of work is interconnected.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

INTRODUCTION Interwoven Histories, Interwoven Identities


PART I The Arab Gaucho: Historical Fictions and Fictional Histories


1. Sarmiento: The Gaucho-Bedouin Barbarian and the Performance of Barbarism


2. Lugones's El Payador and the Legacy of Moorish Blood


3. Hallar and Yaser Custom-Build the Fictions of the Nation




Coda: Menem's Self-Stylization as Arab Gaucho


Part II Writing the Orient to Write the Self


4. Euro-Argentine Orientalisms, before and after the Watershed of Immigration


5. Arab Argentine Re-Presentations of the Orient: On the Border between History and Fiction


Coda: The Arab/Argentine Knot, into the 1990s with Morandini's Take on Menem


Part III Performing Mother Tongues: Language, Morals, and National Affiliation in the Formation of Arab Argentine Identities


6. Discursive Copies, Discursive Differences: The Disruption of the Performance of Argentine National Language and Identity


7. Another Dissonant Performance of Argentineness: Provincial Argentine Polyphony in the 1960s


8. Performing an Other Tongue: Language-Based Arab Identity and the Displacement of Pure Arabic


IN CLOSING The Immigrant and the Orient in Literary and Cultural Studies


Notes
Bibliography
Index