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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826167803321

Autore

Dotson-Renta L

Titolo

Immigration, Popular Culture, and the Re-routing of European Muslim Identity [[electronic resource] /] / by L. Dotson-Renta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-73753-1

1-137-30401-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

305.697094

Soggetti

Europe—Politics and government

Social policy

Emigration and immigration

European literature

European Politics

Social Policy

Migration

European Literature

Europe Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Spain Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Immigration, Popular Culture, and the Re-routing of European Muslim Identity; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Memory, Return, and the "Other Side"; Introduction; Cuentos de las dos orillas: Writing between Morocco and Spain; Performing Identity: El Astillero; El Traslado: Imagining Departure and Return; Being and Leaving: The Traslado of Memory and Self; Spain in French: Tahar ben Jelloun's Partir; Conclusion; Romancing Europe: Postcolonial Foundational Fictions; Introduction; ¿Donde estás, Ahmed? The (Dis)location of Romance; Traslado and Transgressions of the Transitive Body

L'Enfant Endormi: Re- turning the NationConclusion; Europe via Spain: Media, Islam, and the Sounds of Immigrant Identity; Introduction; Mapping Music: The Raval Bridges Europe; Crossing the Strait: Abd Al-



Malik and the French Connection; Lyrical Belongings: El Moro and the Hip- Hop Umma; Conclusion; Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Through readings of postcolonial theory and examination of post-9/11 novels, film, and hip-hop music, this book studies how North African immigrants to Spain translate and transfer cultural and political memory from one land to another.