'Brothers' or Others?: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in EgyptBerghahn Books, 1. 3. 2008 - Počet stran: 204 Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as "brothers" in a united Nile Valley, recent political developments in Egypt have underscored the precarious legal status of Sudanese in Cairo. Neither citizens nor foreigners, they are in an uncertain position, created in part through an unusual ethnic discourse which does not draw principally on obvious characteristics of difference. This rich ethnographic study shows instead that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety, shared by Sudanese and Egyptian communities. The resulting ethnic identity is ambiguous and flexible, allowing Sudanese to voice their frustrations and make claims for their own uniqueness while acknowledging the identity that they share with the dominant Egyptian community. |
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... context of Sudanese experiences in Cairo. History and experience for Sudanese have converged to form an ethnicity that allows both Egyptians and Sudanese a margin of flexibility and concealment in their dealings with each other. Thus ...
... 'race', paying close attention to theories that place ethnic consciousness in the context of regional and global processes. Next, I analyse the concept of ethnicity as a function of 'boundedness' (Barth Introduction | 9.
... context. Arguing that gender propriety is the linchpin upon which Sudanese ambiguous ethnicity hinges, I tap into a significant literature that analyses the gender norms associated with 'Arabness' and 'Muslimness' from a critical ...
... context of the nation-state (Williams 1989; Balibar and Wallerstein 1991; Comaroff 1992). Ethnicity in this view hinges on the basic structure of the capitalist world economy, though Balibar and Wallerstein would include 'race' and ...
... contexts, used to establish solidarity with Egyptians. This suggests that the ethnic boundary negotiated by Sudanese in the Cairo context is not only fluid, but ambiguous, and therefore presents a challenge to ethnicity constructs that ...
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Part IIModernity and Otherness | 51 |
Chapter 3Creating Foreigners Becoming Exiles | 53 |
Chapter 4Presenting Sudanese Differences | 77 |
Part IIINeither Brothers nor Others | 95 |
Chapter 5Muslim Arab Adab and Sudanese Ethnicity | 97 |
Chapter 6A Sudanese Culture of Exile in Cairo | 121 |
Chapter 7Gender Diaspora and Transformation | 151 |
Bibliography | 171 |
Index | 179 |
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