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Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music

Contributors

Karima Laachir kl19@soas.ac.uk
Editor

Saeed Talajooy
Editor

Abstract

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 resistance movements, but rather that they reflect instances of defiance that stem from their peculiar contexts. If culture can be used to consolidate and perpetuate power relations in societies, it can also be used as the site of resistance to oppression in its various forms: gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, subverting existing dominant social and political hegemonies in the Middle East.

Citation

Laachir, K., & Talajooy, S. (Eds.). (2013). Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203084915

Book Type Edited Book
Publication Date Jan 5, 2013
Deposit Date Oct 2, 2012
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Series Title Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
ISBN 9780415893374
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203084915


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