Art and Politics Between the Arab World and Latin America

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-68074-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Islamicate and Ibero-American World Connections

Intertwined with the histories of Arab migration to the Americas from the nineteenth century until now, the emergence of competing nationalist narratives within Arab communities in Latin America, and the birth of anti-imperialist and anticolonial struggles, the history of cultural entanglements between the Arab world and Latin America spans over a hundred years––and reveals the vital role of art in creating bridges between the two regions. This book, the first of its kind, gathers interventions that showcase the twentieth century as a period of intense redefinitions and cultural effervescence across the whole of Latin America and the Arab world. The result is a polished image of the twentieth century as a period whose shifting categories of affiliation were tied to events and movements that connected the two regions in ever deepening ways, and to forms of artful experimentation through which political ideologies, alternative collective identities, and aesthetic movements could be contested or embraced.

Contributors are Diogo Bercito, Kevin Funk, Silvina Schammah Gesser, Laure Guirguis, Olivier Hadouchi, Julia Solana Jáuregui, John Tofik Karam, Edgardo Manero, Mariano Mestman, Gabriella Nugent, Maru Pabón, Laura Reali and Juan José Vagni.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Guirguis, Laure

Pabón, Maru

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

A Note on Transliteration

Introduction Laure Guirguis and Maru Pabón

1 “Talk to Me on the Phone Once a Day”: Arab Migration to Brazil, Music, and Memory Diogo Bercito

2 The 1910 Centenary Plaque: The Memory and Heritage of Arab
Communities in Córdoba, Argentina Juan José Vagni and Julia Solana Jáuregui

3 Artful Experiments in Arab Brasiliana, 1948–1964 John Tofik Karam

4 Looking to Mexico: Hamed Ewais, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Egypt’s Workers Gabriella Nugent

5 Ethnicity, Aesthetics, and Argentine National Identity in Ricardo Halac’s Early Plays Silvina Schammah Gesser

6 Towards a Cinema of Liberation: Links between Political Filmmakers from Latin America and the Arab World during the 1960s–1970s Olivier Hadouchi and Mariano Mestman

7 Understanding Third-Worldist Literary Exchange: National Writers’ Unions in Cuba and Algeria Maru Pabón

8 The Postcolonial Question in Documentary Movies on the Arab World in Argentina: Néstor Suleiman’s Critical Insights Edgardo Manero and María Laura Reali

Afterword: Toward a Cultural Political Economy of Arab-Latin
American Relations Kevin Funk

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laure Guirguis is a historian of the modern Middle East with a focus on the cultural history of Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine-Israel, and Syria. She is the author of Copts and the Security State: Violence, Coercion and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt (Stanford UP, 2016) and the editor of The Arab Left: Histories and Legacies, 1950s – 1970s (Edinburgh UP, 2020).

Maru Pabón is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale University in 2024. A scholar of literary modernity across the Arab world and Latin America, her first book project examines the Third-Worldist desire to construct the “voice of the people” in Palestinian, Cuban, and Algerian poetry.