Tropical orientalism: Brazil’s race debates and the Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic

Ella Shohat; Robert Stam

Tropical orientalism: Brazil’s race debates and the Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic

Ella Shohat, Robert Stam

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Abstract

Shohat and Stam put forward the idea of a Tropical Orientalism in Brazil. They interpret the contemporary Brazilian imaginary of the Orient against the backdrop of a Moorish-Sephardi unconscious, thus highlighting not only the positive cross-Atlantic historical, discursive, and cultural links between "the Orient" and "the Occident," but also the anxieties that such links provoked.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Middle East and Brazil
Subtitle of host publication	Perspectives on the New Global South
Publisher	Indiana University Press
Pages	119-161
Number of pages	43
ISBN (Electronic)	9780253014962
ISBN (Print)	9780253012272
State	Published - Jan 1 2014

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