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UNINA9910480873503321 |
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Alsultany Evelyn |
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Arabs and Muslims in the Media : Race and Representation after 9/11 / / Evelyn Alsultany |
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New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Critical Cultural Communication ; ; 34 |
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Television programs - United States - History - 21st century |
Stereotypes (Social psychology) on television |
Muslims on television |
Arabs on television |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Challenging the Terrorist Stereotype -- 2. Mourning the Suspension of Arab American Civil Rights -- 3. Evoking Sympathy for the Muslim Woman -- 4. Regulating Sympathy for the Muslim Man -- 5. Selling Muslim American Identity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. Arabs and Muslims in the Media examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of “the enemy” during the War on Terror. Evelyn Alsultany explains that a new standard in racial and cultural representations emerged out of the multicultural movement of the 1990s that involves balancing a negative representation with a positive one, what she refers to as “simplified complex representations.” This has meant that if the storyline of a TV drama or film represents an Arab or Muslim as a terrorist, then the storyline also includes a “positive” representation of an Arab, Muslim, |
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Arab American, or Muslim American to offset the potential stereotype. Analyzing how TV dramas such as West Wing, The Practice, 24, Threat Matrix, The Agency, Navy NCIS, and Sleeper Cell, news-reporting, and non-profit advertising have represented Arabs, Muslims, Arab Americans, and Muslim Americans during the War on Terror, this book demonstrates how more diverse representations do not in themselves solve the problem of racial stereotyping and how even seemingly positive images can produce meanings that can justify exclusion and inequality. |
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UNINA9910563096303321 |
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Autore |
Ge Liangyan |
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The Scholar and the State : Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China / / Liangyan Ge |
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University of Washington Press, 2015 |
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Seattle, Washington ; ; London, England : , : University of Washington Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Scholars - China - History |
Literature and society - China |
Chinese fiction - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
China Intellectual life |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A rugged partnership: the intellectual elite and the imperial state -- The romance of the three kingdoms: the Mencian view of political sovereignty -- The scholar-lover in erotic fiction: a power game of selection -- The scholars: trudging out of a textual swamp -- The |
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stone in dream of the red chamber: unfit to repair the azure sky -- Coda: Out of the imperial shadow. |
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In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circumstances in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods forced many to seek alternative careers. Politically engaged but excluded from their traditional bureaucratic roles, creative writers authored critiques of state power in the form of fiction written in the vernacular language.In this study, Liangyan Ge examines the novels Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Scholars, Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as Story of the Stone), and a number of erotic pieces, showing that as the literati class grappled with its own increasing marginalization, its fiction reassessed the assumption that intellectuals’ proper role was to serve state interests and began to imagine possibilities for a new political order. |
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