Representing diasporic masculinities in post-9/11 era: the tragedy versus the comedy.
In the post-9/11 era, North American mainstream writers, critics, artists, and scholars while trying to understand the complexities of Islam, Muslim men, and their relationship to North America have created hegemonic discourses about Islam and Muslim masculinity. Diasporic writers such as Zarqa Nawa...
| Publicado en: | South Asian History & Culture Vol. 5; no. 4; pp. 534 - 551 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2014
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