(Re-)Framing the Arab/Muslim : Mediating Orientalism in Contemporary Arab American Life Writing / Silke Schmidt. Bielefeld : transcript, 2014
Content
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Life Writing Theory: Constructing Life, Claiming Authenticity
2.1 Reconstructing the Construction of Self: Autobiographical Theory Today
2.2 Media Framing Theory
2.3 Framing Lives: A Mediated Theory of Life Writing
3. The Framed Arab/Muslim: Mediated Orientalism
3.1 The Ideological Frame: Orientalism
3.2 The Political Frame: Everlasting War on Terror
3.3 The Issue Frames: Race, Religion, and Gender
4. (Re-)Framing the Afghan Fundamentalist in West of Kabul, East of New York
4.1 Journalistic Agency between East and West (V1)
4.2 Reframing the Muslim Fundamentalist (V2 and V3)
4.3 Reception: The (Re-)Framed Muslim Fundamentalist and His Audience (V4)
5. (Re-)Framing the Egyptian Belly Dancer in Letters from Cairo
5.1 Scholarly Agency (V1)
5.2 Reframing the Egyptian Belly Dancer (V2 and V3)
5.3 Reception: The (Re-)Framed Egyptian Belly Dancer and Her Audience (V4)
6. (Re-)Framing the Iraqi Terrorist in Howling in Mesopotamia
6.1 Legal Agency (V1)
6.2 Reframing the Iraqi Terrorist (V2 and V3)
6.3 Reception: The (Re-)Framed Iraqi Terrorist and His Audience (V4)
7. (Re-)Mediating Orientalism
8. Conclusion
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