Arab American Aesthetics

Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre

Therí Pickens

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Routledge
14 August 2020

Theatre Studies; Films, movies & cinema; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Material culture; Ethnic studies

Series: Routledge Studies on Middle Eastern Diasporas

Arab American Aesthetics enlists a wide range of voices to explore, if not tentatively define, what could constitute Arab American aesthetics in literature, material culture, film, and theatre.

This book seeks to unsettle current conversations within Arab American Studies that neglect aesthetics as a set of choices and constraints. Rather than divorce aesthetics from politics, the book sutures the two more closely together by challenging the causal relationship so often attributed to them. The conversations include formal choices, but also extend to the broad idea of what makes a work distinctly Arab American. That is, what about its beauty, ugliness, sublimity, or humor is explicitly tied to it as part of a tradition of Arab American arts? The book opens up the ways that we discuss Arab American literary and fine arts, so that we understand how Arab American identity and experience begets Arab American artistic enterprise. Split into three sections, the first offers a set of theoretical propositions for understanding aesthetics that traverse Arab American cultural production. The second section focuses on material culture as a way to think through the creation of objects as an aesthetic enterprise. The final section looks at narratives in theatre and how the impact of such a medium has the potential to recreate in both senses of the word: play and invention.

By shifting the conversation from identity politics to the relationship between politics and aesthetics, this book provides an important contribution to Arab American studies. It will also appeal to students and scholars of ethnic studies, museum studies, and cultural studies.

Edited by: Therí Pickens
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367593179
ISBN 10: 0367593173
Series: Routledge Studies on Middle Eastern Diasporas
Pages: 118
Publication Date: 14 August 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Therí A. Pickens is an Associate Professor of English. She is the author of New Body Politics: Narrating Black and Arab Identity in the Contemporary United States (Routledge, 2014). You can find out more about her work at www.tpickens.org.

Reviews for Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre

This volume initiates an important and original conversation about Arab American aesthetics, particularly the relationship between politics and aesthetics in Arab American writing and cultural productions. It is sure to make a significant impact in Arab American Studies. - Evelyn Alsultany, author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media