Gabeba Baderoon

Regarding Muslims

From Slavery to Post-Apartheid

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Produktbeschreibung

"Regarding Muslims argues that the 350-year archive of images documenting Muslims in South Africa is central to understanding the development of concepts of race, sexuality and belonging. Baderoon explores an extensive repertoire of picturesque Muslim figures in South African popular culture, a set of images whose instability is revealed when more disquieting images burst into prominence during moments of crisis. Popular culture, visual art, jokes, bodily practices, oral narratives and rich seams of literature reveal the complexity and subtelty of contributions brought to the South African narrative by Muslims, especially in the post-apartheid period, in which artists and writers reclaim and subvert the gaze, and opt for intricacy and open-endedness as alternatives to the themes of extremism and alienation that dominate Western portrayals of Muslims."--Front-cover flap.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781868147694
• ISBN-10: 186814769X
• Artikelnr.: 41125001

Autorenporträt

Gabeba Baderoon is a literary scholar, poet and Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she also co-directs the African Feminist Initiative. She is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-apartheid and four books of poetry, most recently The History of Intimacy.