Resistance in contemporary Middle Eastern cultures : literature, cinema and music / / edited by Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Disciplina: 700.956
• Soggetto topico: Dissenters in literature; Dissenters, Artistic - Arab countries; Government, Resistance to - Arab countries; Literature and society - Arab countries; Music - Social aspects - Arab countries; Popular culture - Arab countries
• Soggetto geografico: Arab countries In mass media
• Altri autori: LaachirKarima <1972-> TalajooySaeed <1967->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Literature and the seeds of dissent -- pt. II. Cinema between creativity and censorship -- pt. III. Musical interventions.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Resistance in contemporary Middle Eastern cultures
• ISBN: 1-136-19468-1; 0-203-08491-8; 1-283-87167-X; 1-136-19469-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779432603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures