Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
    Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
    Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
    Ebook595 pages8 hours

    Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama

    By Rebecca Joubin

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform post-uprising Syrian drama for various forms of cultural and political critique. These narratives have become complicated since the uprising due to the Syrian regime’s effort to control the revolutionary discourse. As Syria’s uprising spawned more terrorist groups, some drama creators became nostalgic for pre-war days.
     
    While for some screenwriters a return to pre-2011 life would be welcome after so much bloodshed, others advocated profound cultural and social transformation, instead. They employed marriage and gender metaphors in the stories they wrote to engage in political critique, even at the risk of creating marketing difficulties for the shows or they created escapist stories such as transnational adaptations and Old Damascus tales. Serving as heritage preservation, Mediating the Uprising underscores that television drama creators in Syria have many ways of engaging in protest, with gender and marriage at the heart of the polemic. 
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRutgers University Press
    Release dateMay 15, 2020
    ISBN9781978802681
    Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama

    Related to Mediating the Uprising

    Related ebooks

    Politics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      ‘From Midwest To Middle East’: Taylor Luck On Keeping An Open Heart (audio)

      Dec 17, 2019

      So how did the Monitor’s Taylor Luck become a Middle East correspondent? In his own words, he “jumped from the Midwest to the Middle East with an open heart and an open mind.”

      6 min read

    • Article

      Jasmine Fingers

      Aug 22, 2019

      Jasmine Fingers
      14 min read

    • Article

      Exit West

      Dec 25, 2017

      Exit West
      15 min read

    • Article

      Dreams Deferred

      Jan 16, 2022

      Dreams Deferred
      19 min read

    • Article

      Skin Hunger

      Jul 29, 2019

      Skin Hunger
      3 min read

    • Article

      This Month In History

      Aug 4, 2022

      This Month In History
      1 min read

    • Article

      The ‘Invisible’ Children Who Died in the Care of the Chilean State

      Jun 20, 2017

      "Now we know that hundreds of children died, but no one reported their deaths. They remained there forgotten, because they are children that no one cares about."

      3 min read

    • Article

      Generation X

      Apr 12, 2019

      Generation X
      5 min read

    • Article

      Dian Fossey

      Jul 8, 2021

      Dian Fossey
      3 min read

    • Article

      Sephardi Stories

      Jul 26, 2022

      Sephardi Stories
      2 min read

    • Article

      Borderlines

      Jun 12, 2022

      Rohingya Muslims, fleeing from military brutality in Myanmar, have been arriving in India in large numbers since 2008. An estimated 7,000 have ended up around the city of Jammu, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, where they live in makeshift shelters

      1 min read

    • Article

      Voice Of A Nation: How Juba Arabic Helps Bridge A Factious South Sudan

      Nov 6, 2018

      Juba Arabic isn’t just the language spoken by more South Sudanese than any other. It is a tongue that has grown up alongside the country, the witness and stenographer to its difficult history.

      10 min read

    • Article

      Betrayed Again

      Jun 18, 2020

      Betrayed Again
      10 min read

    • Article

      How Researchers Can Better Serve The Deaf Community

      Aug 2, 2018

      New research aims to tackle a significant problem: low levels of health literacy within the Deaf community. The collaboration includes Tim Riker, a lecturer of American Sign Language at Brown University’s Center for Language Studies, clinicians and r

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Mediating the Uprising

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Mediating the Uprising - Rebecca Joubin

      Mediating the Uprising

      The Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts

      Series Editor: Péter Berta

      The Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts series from Rutgers University Press fills a gap in research by examining the politics of marriage and related practices, ideologies, and interpretations, and addresses the key question of how the politics of marriage has affected social, cultural, and political processes, relations, and boundaries. The series looks at the complex relationships between the politics of marriage and gender, ethnic, national, religious, racial, and class identities, and analyzes how these relationships contribute to the development and management of social and political differences, inequalities, and conflicts.

      Joanne Payton, Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage: Violence against Women in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

      Rama Srinivasan, Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India

      Hui Liu, Corinne Reczek, and Lindsey Wilkinson, eds., Marriage and Health: The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples

      Sara Smith, Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold

      Rebecca Joubin, Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama

      Mediating the Uprising

      Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama

      REBECCA JOUBIN

      RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

      NEW BRUNSWICK, CAMDEN, AND NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, AND LONDON

      LCCN: 2019030611

      A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Copyright © 2020 by Rebecca Joubin

      All rights reserved

      No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is fair use as defined by U.S. copyright law.

      The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.

      www.rutgersuniversitypress.org

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      For my daughter, Jana

      CONTENTS

      Series Foreword by Péter Berta

      List of Abbreviations

      Note on Transliteration

      Chronology of the Syrian Uprising

      Introduction: New Directions in Television Drama amid an Uprising

      1Mediating the Uprising

      2Sociopolitical Satire in the Multiyear Syrian Sketch SeriesBuq‘at Daw’(Spotlight): Artistic Resistance via Gender and Marriage Metaphors, 2001–2019

      3The Rise and Fall of theQabaday(Tough Man): (De)constructing Fatherhood as Political Protest

      4The Politics of Love and Desire in Post-Uprising Syrian and Transnational Arab Television Drama

      5The Politics of Queer Representations in Syrian Television Drama Past and Present

      Conclusion

      Appendix A: Miniseries for Ramadan, 2011–2018

      Appendix B: Percentages of Miniseries, 2011–2018

      Appendix C: Miniseries for Ramadan, 2019

      Appendix D: Percentages of Miniseries, 2019

      Acknowledgments

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Filmography

      Index

      SERIES FOREWORD

      The politics of marriage (and divorce) is an often-used strategic tool in various social, cultural, economic, and political identity projects as well as in symbolic conflicts between ethnic, national, or religious communities. Despite having multiple strategic applicabilities, pervasiveness in everyday life, and huge significance in performing and managing identities, the politics of marriage is surprisingly underrepresented both in the international book publishing market and in the social sciences.

      The Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts is a series from Rutgers University Press examining the politics of marriage as a phenomenon embedded in and intensely interacting with much broader social, cultural, economic, and political processes and practices such as globalization; transnationalization; international migration; human trafficking; vertical social mobility; the creation of symbolic boundaries between ethnic populations, nations, religious denominations, or classes; family formation; and struggles for women’s and children’s rights. The series primarily aims to analyze practices, ideologies, and interpretations related to the politics of marriage and to outline the dynamics and diversity of relatedness—interplay and interdependence, for instance—between the politics of marriage and the broader processes and practices mentioned above. In other words, most books in the series devote special attention to how the politics of marriage and these processes and practices mutually shape and explain each other.

      The series concentrates on, among other things, the complex relationships between the politics of marriage and gender, ethnic, national, religious, racial, and class identities globally, and examines how these relationships contribute to the development and management of social, cultural, and political differences, inequalities, and conflicts.

      The series seeks to publish single-authored books and edited volumes that develop a gap-filling and thought-provoking critical perspective, that are well-balanced between a high degree of theoretical sophistication and empirical richness, and that cross or rethink disciplinary, methodological, or theoretical boundaries. The thematic scope of the series is intentionally left broad to encourage creative submissions that fit within the perspectives outlined above.

      Among the potential topics closely connected with the problem sensitivity of the series are honor-based violence; arranged (forced, child, etc.) marriage; transnational marriage markets, migration, and brokerage; intersections of marriage and religion/class/race; the politics of agency and power within marriage; reconfiguration of family: same-sex marriage/union; the politics of love, intimacy, and desire; marriage and multicultural families; the (religious, legal, etc.) politics of divorce; the causes, forms, and consequences of polygamy in contemporary societies; sport marriage; refusing marriage; and so forth.

      MEDIATING THE UPRISING IS A UNIQUE, insightful, and thought-provoking summary of why and how metaphors of marriage and gender are used strategically in postrevolutionary Syrian television drama. The chapters brilliantly outline how (the subculture of) post-uprising television miniseries can mediate—through staging and framing the themes of love, sexuality, and marriage—political critique of the state and current power relations; social critique of the ethics of sociability amid war and bloodshed; and, finally, a cultural critique of certain gender and marital roles and identities. Mediating the Uprising offers an excellent insight not only into the dynamics of (narrative, value-based) conflicts between the political regime and the opposition, but also into how the politics of nostalgia, fatherhood, and masculinity work; how various (often contesting) interpretations and visions of the nation’s past and future are negotiated; and how cultural forms and mechanisms of everyday resistance against oppression are deployed in contemporary Syrian society. Using the lens of marriage and gender, the ultimate aim of Joubin’s nuanced and impressive monograph is to demonstrate and analyze continuities and discontinuities in Syrian television drama, politics, and society—convincingly highlighting (via investigating, among other things, seven seasons of drama, press releases, anecdotes, and interviews) how art and the drama creators themselves are involved in shaping the ongoing public debate on the meanings and consequences of the 2011 Syrian revolution.

      PÉTER BERTA

      University College London

      School of Slavonic and

      East European Studies

      ABBREVIATIONS

      NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION

      Arabic words, names, and reference material have been translated according to the system used by the International Journal of Middle East Studies. I have omitted diacritical marks, but have maintained the constant ayn (‘) and the hamza glottal stop (’). Commonly known Arabic words have not been italicized. Many Syrian writers, directors, and actors transliterate their names on their Facebook pages and websites in a simplified manner. In order to avoid irregularity and confusion in my book, however, I have spelled the majority of names according to the IJMES system. To preserve the Syrian ambiance, I have translated titles of miniseries as they are pronounced in colloquial. Furthermore, expressions quoted by drama creators have been transliterated in colloquial. In these cases, the ta’-marbuta is pronounced eh rather than a, as in Modern Standard Arabic. However, I have transliterated Arabic bibliography and endnote material according to Modern Standard Arabic. For reasons of clarity, in my transliterations I have kept the letter qaf as in standard Arabic. Unless otherwise indicated, all transliterations of dialogue from the musalsalat from Arabic into English are my own.

      CHRONOLOGY OF THE SYRIAN UPRISING

      2011

      2012

      2013

      2014

      2015

      2016

      2017

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1