Arab Brazil : Fictions of Ternary Orientalism.
Until recently, Arab-Brazilian relations have been largely invisible to area studies and Comparative Literature scholarship. Yet Arabs have left a permanent imprint on Brazil: from the legacy of Muslim Iberia, transmitted by Portuguese settlers; to waves of Arab immigrants since the late nineteenth...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | Until recently, Arab-Brazilian relations have been largely invisible to area studies and Comparative Literature scholarship. Yet Arabs have left a permanent imprint on Brazil: from the legacy of Muslim Iberia, transmitted by Portuguese settlers; to waves of Arab immigrants since the late nineteenth century; to the prominence today of Brazilians of Arab descent in politics, the economy, literature, and culture. The first book of its kind, Arab Brazil argues that representations of Arab and Muslim immigrants in Brazilian literature and popular culture reveal anxieties and contradictions in the country's ideologies of national identity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (345 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780197688786 0197688780 |