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Between Argentines and Arabs
Christina Civantos
其他書名
Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity
出版SUNY Press, 2006-06-01
主題Literary Criticism / Middle EasternLiterary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin AmericanHistory / Latin America / South America
ISBN07914660279780791466025
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=26WDBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Summary
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.