| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Anthropology, culture, and society
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Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and index. |
| Contents |
Everyday Arabness -- Tresspassing: the reach of performativity -- Re-reading sex and temperament -- Getting stuck between performance and performativity -- Performative race: the injunctions "to be" ethnic in Britain -- 1. Critical junctures in the making of Arab London -- Struggles of the homeland: students and activists 1924-73 -- London for sale: playboy princes and the Petrodollar Invasion -- Stray Dogs in London: political purges 1977-89 -- War and the making of British Arabs -- Migration, ethnic counting and the racialisation of Arabness -- Making and unmaking Arab London. |
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2. Learning to be Arab: growing up in London -- War at school -- Learning to be an Arab man -- Gendering narratives and Arabs in hiding -- (Re)citing masculine heroism -- Learning to be an Arab woman -- One performance, competing structures of subjection -- Contested recitations of identitarian authenticity -- 3. Going for Shisha: doing ethnicity, gender and class -- Shisha: the aromas of gender, ethnicity and morality -- Walk of shame -- Our kind of people, our kind of place -- 4. Dancing class: choreographing Arabness in London -- Emirs and emiras: partying with the stereotype of Arab wealth -- No sex please we're Arabs -- Assuming a position on dance -- Raqs: performance, comportment and sexuality -- Dancing men: gender parody or ambiguity? -- 5. Reclaiming the Orient through the diasporic gaze -- Orientalism in art: A1-Qanoon -- An Orient in my likeness -- Encrypted others of melancholia -- 6. Performativity and the undoing of identity -- A performative reading of becoming Arab in London. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arabs -- England -- London.
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Arabs. |
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England -- London. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aly, Ramy M.K. Becoming Arab in London 9780745333595 (OCoLC)904484652 |
| ISBN |
9781783711567 (electronic book) |
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1783711566 (electronic book) |
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9780745333595 |
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0745333591 |
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9780745333588 |
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0745333583 |
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9781783711574 (EPUB) |
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9781783711581 (Kindle) |
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1783711574 |
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9781783711574 |
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1783711582 |
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9781783711581 |
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