Becoming Arab In London: Performativity And The Undoing Of Identity

Synopsis

Machine Generated Contents Note: Everyday Arabness -- Tresspassing: The Reach Of Performativity -- Re-reading `sex And Temperament' -- Getting Stuck Between `performance' And `performativity' -- Performative Race: The Injunctions `to Be' Ethnic In Britain -- 1. Critical Junctures In The Making Of Arab London -- Struggles Of The Homeland: Students And Activists 1924 -- 73 -- London For Sale: Playboy Princes And `the Petrodollar Invasion' -- The `stray Dogs' In London: Political Purges 1977 -- 89 -- War And The Making Of British Arabs -- Migration, Ethnic Counting And The Racialisation Of `arabness' -- Making And Unmaking `arab London' -- 2. Learning To Be Arab: Growing Up In London -- The War At School -- Learning To Be An Arab Man -- Gendering Narratives And Arabs In Hiding (re)citing Masculine Heroism -- Learning To Be An Arab Woman -- One Performance, Competing Structures Of Subjection -- Contested Recitations Of Identitarian Authenticity -- 3. Going For Shisha: Doing Ethnicity, Gender And Class -- Shisha: The Aromas Of Gender, Ethnicity And Morality -- The Walk Of Shame -- Our Kind Of People, Our Kind Of Place -- 4. Dancing Class: Choreographing Arabness In London -- Emirs And Emiras: Partying With The Stereotype Of Arab Wealth -- No Sex Please We're Arabs -- Assuming A Position On Dance -- Raqs: Performance, Comportment And Sexuality -- The Dancing Men: Gender Parody Or Ambiguity? -- 5. Reclaiming The Orient Through The Diasporic Gaze -- Orientalism In Art: A1-qanoon -- An Orient In My Likeness -- The Encrypted Others Of Melancholia -- 6. Performativity And The Undoing Of Identity -- A Performative Reading Of Becoming Arab In London. Ramy M.k. Aly. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 221-248) And Index.