The Muslim, the Jew and the African American: America and the production of alterity in Borat
Author: Neofotistos, Vasiliki P.1
Source: Anthropology Today, Volume 24, Number 4, August 2008 , pp. 13-17(5)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
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Abstract:
In this paper, I draw on the work of literary critic Wolfgang Kayser and his concept of the grotesque to analyze the recently released film “Borat”. I argue that the film is an allegory of America and some of its Others, including the Muslim, the Jew, and the African American.Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2008.00600.x
Affiliations: 1: Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her is:, Email: neofotis@buffalo.edu.
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