The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax : : Progressive Orientalism and the Arab Spring / / Andrew Orr.
The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax explores the vulnerability of educated and politically engaged Westerners to Progressive Orientalism, a form of Orientalism embedded within otherwise egalitarian and anti-imperialist Western thought. Early in the Arab Spring, the Gay Girl in Damascus blog appeared. Its...
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Orr, Andrew, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax : Progressive Orientalism and the Arab Spring / Andrew Orr. München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (XI, 161 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Transnational Queer Histories , 2750-6096 ; 1 Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Orientalism and the Western Imagination -- Chapter I Crafting a Digital Heroine -- Chapter II Amina and the Media -- Chapter III The Scandal -- Chapter IV Academics, Ideology, and Identity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax explores the vulnerability of educated and politically engaged Westerners to Progressive Orientalism, a form of Orientalism embedded within otherwise egalitarian and anti-imperialist Western thought. Early in the Arab Spring, the Gay Girl in Damascus blog appeared. Its author claimed to be Amina Arraf, a Syrian American lesbian Muslim woman living in Damascus. After the blog’s went viral in April 2011, Western journalists electronically interviewed Amina, magnifying the blog’s claim that the Syrian uprising was an ethnically and religiously pluralist movement anchored in an expansive sense of social solidarity. However, after a post announced that the secret police had kidnapped Amina, journalists and activists belatedly realized that Amina did not exists and Thomas “Tom” MacMaster, a forty-year-old straight white American man and peace activist living and studying medieval history in Scotland was the blog’s true author. MacMaster’s hoax succeeded by melding his and his audience’s shared political and cultural beliefs into a falsified version of the Syrian Revolution that validated their views of themselves as anti-racist and anti-imperialist progressives by erasing real Syrians. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Blogs Political aspects Arab countries. Arab Spring. Hoax. Orientalism. Progressive. HISTORY / Middle East / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 9783111175782 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English 9783111319131 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 9783111318189 ZDB-23-DEG EPUB 9783111057583 print 9783111056579 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111057231 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111057231 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111057231/original |
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