TY - GEN AU - Schmidt,Silke TI - (Re-)Framing the Arab/Muslim : Mediating Orientalism in Contemporary Arab American Life Writing SN - transcript.9783839429150 PY - 2014/// CY - Bielefeld, Germany PB - transcript Verlag KW - National liberation & independence, post-colonialism KW - bicssc 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 N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45548/1/627787.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32014 ER -