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Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field
Author(s): Tarik Sabry (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: I.B.Tauris
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848855583
- ISBN-13: 9781848855588
Book Description
‘Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field’ is the first attempt to explore ways of conceptualising and theorising the nascent field of Arab Cultural Studies. It reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, history, epistemology, language, method, politics, literary and cultural criticism, institutionalization, popular culture, creativity and much more. The book presents a meta-narrative about how scholars have thus far thought and re-thought the field. It brings together prominent and emerging experts, writing from both Arab and Western academia, to engage with key complex, epistemic and methodological questions and to articulate in the meantime the new kinds of language and hermeneutics necessary for the appropriation of an historically conscious and coherent field of scientific enquiry into contemporary Arab media, culture and society.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The first difficulty with so-called cultural studies is understanding what is meant by such an ostensibly broad term. Tarik Sabry s new book, Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field, is a perfect guide in seeking an answer to this question… The greatest strength of Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field is the range and caliber of its contributors, as well as the masterful organization of the chapters. Each article is as interesting as the last, which leaves you wanting to read on… This volume is incredibly useful and will present valuable arguments to students and scholars of Arab cultural studies. –The Majalla
About the Author
Tarik Sabry is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Theory at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (I.B.Tauris, 2010) and is co-editor if the ‘Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication’.
