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Becoming Arab in London - Performativity and the Undoing of Identity

English · Hardback

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Description

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Looks critically at the idea of 'Arab-ness' and the ways in which ethnic subjects are produced, signified and recited in London.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Arab London 3. Learning to be Arab: Growing up in London 4. Going for Shisha: performative space 5. Dancing 'class,' 'gender' and 'ethnicity' 6. Reclaiming the Orient through the diasporic gaze 7. Conclusion

About the author

Ramy M. K. Aly is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of Becoming Arab in London (Pluto, 2015).

Summary

An exploration into the lives of young Arabs growing up in London which critiques 'identity' in favour of race, gender and class.

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