{"product_id":"9780472028771","title":"Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora","description":"\u003ci\u003eBetween the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e traces the production and circulation of discourses about \"the Middle East\" across various cultural sites, against the historical backdrop of cross-Atlantic Mahjar flows. The book highlights the fraught and ambivalent situation of Arabs\/Muslims in the Americas, where they are at once celebrated and demonized, integrated and marginalized, simultaneously invisible and spectacularly visible. The essays cover such themes as Arab hip-hop's transnational imaginary; gender\/sexuality and the Muslim digital diaspora; patriotic drama and the media's War on Terror; the global negotiation of the Prophet Mohammad cartoons controversy; the Latin American paradoxes of Turcophobia\/Turcophilia; the ambiguities of the bellydancing fad; French and American commodification of Rumi spirituality; the reception of Iranian memoirs as cultural domestication; and the politics of translation of Turkish novels into English. Taken together, the essays analyze the hegemonic discourses that position \"the Middle East\" as a consumable exoticized object, while also developing complex understandings of self-representation in literature, cinema\/TV, music, performance, visual culture, and digital spaces. Charting the shifting significations of differing and overlapping forms of Orientalism, the volume addresses Middle Eastern diasporic practices from a transnational perspective that brings postcolonial cultural studies methods to bear on Arab American studies, Middle Eastern studies, and Latin American studies. \u003ci\u003eBetween the Middle East and the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e disentangles the conventional separation of regions, moving beyond the binarist notion of \"here\" and \"there\" to imaginatively reveal the thorough interconnectedness of cultural geographies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119675228400,"sku":"9780472028771","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472028771_p0.jpg?v=1763707682","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472028771","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}