Arab American Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arab American Aesthetics write by Therí Pickens. This book was released on 2018-01-19. Arab American Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Aesthetics in Arabic Thought
Aesthetics in Arabic Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetics in Arabic Thought write by José Miguel Puerta-Vilchez. This book was released on 2017-07-10. Aesthetics in Arabic Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus José Miguel Puerta Vílchez analyzes the discourses about beauty, the arts, and sense perception that arose within classical Arab culture from pre-Islamic poetry and the Quran (sixth-seventh centuries CE) to the Alhambra palace in Granada (fourteenth century CE). He focuses on the contributions of such great thinkers as Ibn Ḥazm, Avempace, Ibn Ṭufayl, Averroes, Ibn ʿArabī, and Ibn Khaldūn in al-Andalus, and the Brethren of Purity, al-Tawḥīdī, al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Alhazen, and al-Ghazālī in the East. The work also explores literary criticism, calligraphy, music, belles-lettres (adab), and erotic literature, and highlights the contribution of Arab humanism to shaping the field of Aesthetics in the West.
Arabic Poetics
Arabic Poetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Poetics write by Lara Harb. This book was released on 2020-05-14. Arabic Poetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revealing how an aesthetic of wonder underlies classical Arabic treatments of poetry, the Quran, and Aristotelian poetics, this fresh look at the question of literary quality, using the framework of aesthetic theory, is essential reading for scholars and students of Arabic literature, Islamic Studies, literary theory and Islamic art history.
Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel
Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel write by Mazen Naous. This book was released on 2020-03-10. Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Redefines dominant perceptions of Arab Americans via an aesthetic analysis of Arab American novels, launching transcultural possibilities by initiating visibility through poetics.
Arabian Jazz
Arabian Jazz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabian Jazz write by Diana Abu-Jaber. This book was released on 2003. Arabian Jazz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York.
