TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmidt, Silke
AB  - Media depictions of Arabs and Muslims continue to be framed by images of camels, belly dancers, and dagger-wearing terrorists. But do only Hollywood movies and TV news have the power to  frame public discourse? This interdisciplinary study transfers media framing theory to literary studies to show how life writing (re-)frames Orientalist stereotypes. The innovative analysis of the  post-9/11 autobiographies 'West of Kabul, East of New York',  'Letters from Cairo', and 'Howling in Mesopotamia' makes a powerful claim to approach literature based on a theory of production and reception, thus enhancing the multi-disciplinary potential of framing theory.
DO  - 10.14361/transcript.9783839429150
ID  - OAPEN ID: 627787
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 900344276
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - Framing
KW  - Life Writing
KW  - Media
KW  - 9/11
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Culture
KW  - Postcolonial Studies
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - America
KW  - Arab Americans
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Memoir
KW  - United States
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/a8031124-ea1c-4765-ba5d-aa973c1b398d/627787.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45548
PB  - transcript Verlag
PP  - Bielefeld, Germany
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9783839429150
TI  - (Re-)Framing the Arab/Muslim : Mediating Orientalism in Contemporary Arab American Life Writing
ER  - 
