The Forms and Meanings of (In)Visibility

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_5828
dc.title	The Forms and Meanings of (In)Visibility. Arab-Americans and the State of Terror in Youssef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat and Language Rooms
dc.contributor.author	Schiavini Cinzia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2021/55/the-forms-and-meanings-of-invisibility/
dc.description.abstract	This article investigates two well-known plays by Youssef El Guindi, the most important and prolific playwright of 21st century Arab-American theatre. Both plays are related to the consequences of the terrorist attacks on the Arab-American community, and they explore the structures of control enacted by the security state and the strategies of its repressive politics. The article focuses in particular on the tropes of visibility and invisibility and its paradoxes for a minority that moved from ‘invisible citizens’ to ‘visible subjects’ within a few hours. The paradoxes of visibility and invisibility and their divide are here explored in relation to three main issues: the relationship between ethnic identity and citizenship – be it social and/or political; deviancy and the construction of Otherness; and identity and the body.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 55 \| Settembre 2021
dc.issued	2021-07-29
dc.dateAccepted	2021-04-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-04-01
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2021/09/004
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	9/11
dc.subject	9/11
dc.subject	Arab-Americans
dc.subject	Arab-Americans
dc.subject	Contemporary American literature
dc.subject	Contemporary American literature
dc.subject	Theatre
dc.subject	Theatre
dc.subject	Visibility and Invisibility
dc.subject	Visibility and Invisibility

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Arab-Americans and the State of Terror in Youssef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat and Language Rooms

Cinzia Schiavini Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia

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abstract

This article investigates two well-known plays by Youssef El Guindi, the most important and prolific playwright of 21st century Arab-American theatre. Both plays are related to the consequences of the terrorist attacks on the Arab-American community, and they explore the structures of control enacted by the security state and the strategies of its repressive politics. The article focuses in particular on the tropes of visibility and invisibility and its paradoxes for a minority that moved from ‘invisible citizens’ to ‘visible subjects’ within a few hours. The paradoxes of visibility and invisibility and their divide are here explored in relation to three main issues: the relationship between ethnic identity and citizenship – be it social and/or political; deviancy and the construction of Otherness; and identity and the body.

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29 Luglio 2021

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21 Aprile 2021

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01 Aprile 2021

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Keywords: Contemporary American literature • 9/11 • Visibility and Invisibility • Theatre • Arab-Americans

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2021/09/004

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