Read more
Informationen zum Autor Paul Amar is Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism and editor of Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries. Klappentext This groundbreaking collection traces the links between these two regions, describes the emergence of new South-South solidarities, and offers new methodologies for the study of transnationalism, global culture, and international relations. Zusammenfassung With its new political and cultural affiliations with the Middle East and the renewed visibility of the country's millions of practicing Muslims and those with Middle Eastern roots, Brazil may offer useful lessons for countries transformed by the "Arab Spring." This collection reveals the historical links between these two world regions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Paul Amar Part I. South-South Relations, Security Politics, Diplomatic History 1. The Middle East and Brazil: Transregional Politics in the Dilma Rousseff Era Paul Amar 2. The South America-Arab States Summit: Historical Contexts of South-South Solidarity and Exchange Paulo Daniel Farah 3. Brazil's Relations with the Middle East in the "Oil Shock" Era: Pragmatism, Universalism, and Developmentalism in the 1970s Carlos Ribeiro Santana 4. Palestine/Israel Controversies in the 1970s and the Birth of Brazilian Transregionalism Monique Sochaczewski 5. Terrorist Frontier Cell or Cosmopolitan Commercial Hub? The Arab and Muslim Presence at the Border of Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina Fernando Rabossi Part II. Race, Nation and Transregional Imaginations 6. Tropical Orientalism: Brazil's Race Debates and the Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic Ella Shohat and Robert Stam 7. Slave Barracks Aristocrats: Islam and the Orient in the Work of Gilberto Freyre Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond 8. Islamic Transnationalism and Anti-Slavery Movements: The Malê Rebellion as Debated by Brazil's Press, 1835-1838 José T. Cairus 9. Brazil and Its Middle Eastern Populations: A Transnational Intellectual Sphere María del Mar Logroño Narbona 10. The Politics of Anti-Zionism and Racial Democracy in Homeland Tourism John Tofik Karam 11. Rio de Janeiro's Global Bazaar: Syrian, Lebanese, and Chinese Merchants in the Saara Neiva Vieira da Cunha and Pedro Paulo Thiago de Mello 12. Muslim Identities in Brazil: Engaging Local and Transnational Spheres Paulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha Pinto Part III. Literature and Transregional Media Cultures 13. Telenovelas and Muslim Identities in Brazil Silvia M. Montenegro 14. Turco Peddlers, Brazilian Plantationists, and Transnational Arabs: The Genre Triangle of Levantine-Brazilian Literature Silvia C. Ferreira 15. Multiple Homelands: Heritage and Migrancy in Brazilian Mahjari Literature Armando Vargas 16. Orientalism in Milton Hatoum's Fiction Daniela Birman 17. Arab-Brazilian Literature: Alberto Mussa's Mu'allaqa and South-South Dialogue Waïl Hassan ...
