Consuming Orientalism
Public Foodways of Arab American Christians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13049666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Jaber Stiffler (0000-0002-1120-8443, National Museum of American History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mashriq & Mahjar Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2169-4435 • E-ISSN: 2169-4435 |
| Publisher | Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.24847/22i2014.42 |
| OpenAlex | W2252857048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 10 |
For more than a century, Arab Americans have resorted to self-Orientalism to secure their place in the US multicultural arena as “authentic” others. My essay focuses on the strategic use of self-Orientalist imagery and rhetoric within Arab American Christian communities, specifically at restaurants and church-sponsored festivals. Following the long line of scholars that have mobilized and modified Edward Said’s framework, my use of the term self-Orientalism refers to the ways that Arab Americans have strategically deployed Orientalist imagery and rhetoric as a representational practice within liberal multiculturalism. My essay also intervenes in the field of Arab American studies in two key ways: by arguing for the importance of foodways as site of cultural analysis, and by focusing on how Arab Americans have themselves interacted with and deployed stereotypical representations
Aesthetics · Field (mathematics · Foodways · Islam · Islamophobia · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Orientalism · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |