Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

By: Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy

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Synopsis: This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of 'cultural resistance' to describe the way culture and cultural creations are used to resist or even change the dominant political, social, economic, and cultural discourses and structures either consciously or unconsciously. The contributors do not claim that these cultural products constitute organized resistance movements, but rather that they reflect instances of defiance that stem from their peculiar contexts. If culture can be used to consolidate and perpetuate power relations in societies, it can also be used as the site of resistance to oppression in its various forms: gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, subverting existing dominant social and political hegemonies in the Middle East.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 286 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781136194689
Related ISBNs:: 9781138118553, 9780415893374, 9780203084915
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 06/13/23
Copyrighted By:: Routledge
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Music
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Karima Laachir
Edited by:: Saeed Talajooy