Between Argentines and Arabs

Between Argentines and Arabs is a groundbreaking contribution to two growing fields: the study of immigrants and minorities in Latin America and the study of the Arab diaspora. As a literary and cultural study, this book examines the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Using methods drawn ...

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Between Argentines and Arabs is a groundbreaking contribution to two growing fields: the study of immigrants and minorities in Latin America and the study of the Arab diaspora. As a literary and cultural study, this book examines the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Using methods drawn from literary analysis and cultural studies, Christina Civantos shows that the Arab presence is twofold: "the Arab" and "the Orient" are an imagined figure and space within the texts produced by Euro-Argentine intellectuals; and immigrants from the Arab world are an actual community, producing their own texts within the multiethnic Argentine nation. This book is both a literary history--of Argentine Orientalist literature and Arab-Argentine immigrant literature--and a critical analysis of how the formation of identities in these two bodies of work is interconnected.

Acknowledgments
Preface
INTRODUCTION Interwoven Histories, Interwoven Identities
PART I The Arab Gaucho: Historical Fictions and Fictional Histories
1. Sarmiento: The Gaucho-Bedouin Barbarian and the Performance of Barbarism
2. Lugones's El Payador and the Legacy of Moorish Blood
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Acknowledgments
Preface
INTRODUCTION Interwoven Histories, Interwoven Identities
PART I The Arab Gaucho: Historical Fictions and Fictional Histories
1. Sarmiento: The Gaucho-Bedouin Barbarian and the Performance of Barbarism
2. Lugones's El Payador and the Legacy of Moorish Blood
3. Hallar and Yaser Custom-Build the Fictions of the Nation

Coda: Menem's Self-Stylization as Arab Gaucho

Part II Writing the Orient to Write the Self

4. Euro-Argentine Orientalisms, before and after the Watershed of Immigration
5. Arab Argentine Re-Presentations of the Orient: On the Border between History and Fiction

Coda: The Arab/Argentine Knot, into the 1990s with Morandini's Take on Menem

Part III Performing Mother Tongues: Language, Morals, and National Affiliation in the Formation of Arab Argentine Identities
6. Discursive Copies, Discursive Differences: The Disruption of the Performance of Argentine National Language and Identity
7. Another Dissonant Performance of Argentineness: Provincial Argentine Polyphony in the 1960s
8. Performing an Other Tongue: Language-Based Arab Identity and the Displacement of Pure Arabic
IN CLOSING The Immigrant and the Orient in Literary and Cultural Studies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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