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By employing the innovative lenses of ‘thing theory’ and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia’s things - from cultural objects to commodities to historical and ethnographic artifacts to imaginary things - in creating an Arabian identity over time. The Arabian identity that we convey here comprises both a fabulous Arabia that has haunted the European imagination for the past three hundred years and a real Arabia that has had its unique history, culture, and traditions outside the Orientalized narratives of the West. All Things Arabia aims to dispel existing stereotypes and to stimulate new thinking about an area whose patterns of trade and cosmopolitanism have pollinated the world with lasting myths, knowledge, and things of beauty.
Contributors include: Ileana Baird, Marie-Claire Bakker, Joseph Donica, Holly Edwards, Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Victoria Hightower, Jennie MacDonald, Kara McKeown, Rana Al-Ogayyel, Ceyda Oskay, Chrysavgi Papagianni, James Redman, Eran Segal, Hülya Yağcıoğlu, and William Gerard Zimmerle.
Contributors include: Ileana Baird, Marie-Claire Bakker, Joseph Donica, Holly Edwards, Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Victoria Hightower, Jennie MacDonald, Kara McKeown, Rana Al-Ogayyel, Ceyda Oskay, Chrysavgi Papagianni, James Redman, Eran Segal, Hülya Yağcıoğlu, and William Gerard Zimmerle.
Price: $210.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World
Publication Date:
11 December 2020
ISBN: 9789004435919
Format: Hardcover
Ileana Baird, Ph.D. (2012), University of Virginia, is an Assistant Professor of English at Zayed University. She is the editor of Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2020), Eighteenth-Century Social Networks: Clubs, Literary Salons, Textual Coteries (CSP, 2014), and (with Christina Ionescu) Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture (Ashgate, 2014; Routledge, 2018). She has authored articles on eighteenth-century visual and material culture and digital humanities.
Hülya Yağcıoğlu, Ph.D. (2015), Boğaziçi University, is an Assistant Professor of English at Zayed University. She is the author of articles on comparative literature and material culture, including, more recently, “Reifying Innocence: Material Contexts of Love in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence” (Routledge, 2017) and “Bridging the Gap between People and Things: The Politics and Poetics of Collecting in Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence” (Ibidem Verlag, 2017). .
Hülya Yağcıoğlu, Ph.D. (2015), Boğaziçi University, is an Assistant Professor of English at Zayed University. She is the author of articles on comparative literature and material culture, including, more recently, “Reifying Innocence: Material Contexts of Love in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence” (Routledge, 2017) and “Bridging the Gap between People and Things: The Politics and Poetics of Collecting in Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence” (Ibidem Verlag, 2017). .