Examines the presence of Arabs and the Arab world in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Argentine literature by juxtaposing works by Argentines of European descent and those written by Arab immigrants in Argentina.
Between Argentines and Arabs is a groundbreaking contribution to two growing fields: the study of immigrants and minorities in Latin America and the study of the Arab diaspora. As a literary and cultural study, this book examines the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s.
Using methods drawn from literary analysis and cultural studies, Christina Civantos shows that the Arab presence is twofold: ‘the Arab’ and ‘the Orient’ are an imagined figure and space within the texts produced by Euro-Argentine intellectuals; and immigrants from the Arab world are an actual community, producing their own texts within the multiethnic Argentine nation. This book is both a literary history-of Argentine Orientalist literature and Arab-Argentine immigrant literature-and a critical analysis of how the formation of identities in these two bodies of work is interconnected.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Acknowledgments
Preface
INTRODUCTION Interwoven Histories, Interwoven Identities
PART I The Arab Gaucho: Historical Fictions and Fictional Histories
1. Sarmiento: The Gaucho-Bedouin Barbarian and the Performance of Barbarism
2. Lugones’s El Payador and the Legacy of Moorish Blood
3. Hallar and Yaser Custom-Build the Fictions of the Nation
Coda: Menem’s Self-Stylization as Arab Gaucho
Part II Writing the Orient to Write the Self
4. Euro-Argentine Orientalisms, before and after the Watershed of Immigration
5. Arab Argentine Re-Presentations of the Orient: On the Border between History and Fiction
Coda: The Arab/Argentine Knot, into the 1990s with Morandini’s Take on Menem
Part III Performing Mother Tongues: Language, Morals, and National Affiliation in the Formation of Arab Argentine Identities
6. Discursive Copies, Discursive Differences: The Disruption of the Performance of Argentine National Language and Identity
7. Another Dissonant Performance of Argentineness: Provincial Argentine Polyphony in the 1960s
8. Performing an Other Tongue: Language-Based Arab Identity and the Displacement of Pure Arabic
IN CLOSING The Immigrant and the Orient in Literary and Cultural Studies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Sobre o autor
Christina Civantos is Associate Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami and the author of Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity, also published by SUNY Press.
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