1st Edition
Arab American Aesthetics Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre
Introduction: What’s (Identity) Politics Got to Do With It? Therí A. Pickens Part One: Literary Aesthetics 1. The Poetics of Torture in Philip Metres’ Sand Opera, Carol N. Fadda 2. An Aesthetics of Haunting: Negotiating Borders and Loss in Arab American Poetry, Sirene Harb 3. Unfixing the Autobiographical Subject: Fragmentation as Aesthetics and Identity in Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine, Leila Moayeri Pazargadi Part Two: Material Culture 4. "Serving Arabness": Imagery and Imagination of Arab-themed Restaurants, Matthew Jaber Stiffler Part Three: Film & Theatre 5. Beyond First Responders: Politics, Racism, and the Aesthetics of Arab American Theatre, Jamil Khoury 6. Acting Arab/Arab Acting: Reclaiming the Arab American Identity Through Aesthetic Choices, Michael Malek Najjar
Biography
Therí A. Pickens is an Associate Professor of English. She is the author of New Body Politics: Narrating Black and Arab Identity in the Contemporary United States (Routledge, 2014). You can find out more about her work at www.tpickens.org.
This volume initiates an important and original conversation about Arab American aesthetics, particularly the relationship between politics and aesthetics in Arab American writing and cultural productions. It is sure to make a significant impact in Arab American Studies.
- Evelyn Alsultany, author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media
