Date of Award
1-1-2015
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences
First Advisor
Kate Willink, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Roy Wood
Third Advisor
Darrin Hicks
Keywords
Affective attunement, Affect theory, Arab-American, Critical intercultural communication, Everyday, Performance
Abstract
Critical intercultural communication (CIC) scholarship on hybridity emphasizes the necessity of examining hybrid performances within their cultural, political, and interpersonal contexts. Though telling, it overlooks a significant piece of the puzzle in understanding hybrid lived experience: how one feels in relation to an interaction, societal structure, or circulating discourse. This dissertation seeks to build an interdisciplinary bridge between CIC and affect theory with the purpose of emphasizing the importance of embodiment in the exploration and interpretation of hybrid performance. To do this, I will draw upon what Manning (2013) terms affective attunement, which accentuates how each lived moment is particular to its historical, interpersonal, sociopolitical and embodied contexts. Furthermore, I develop embodied narratives of location as a complementary methodological counterpart that highlights the necessary inclusion of embodied context in scholarship that examines everyday experience. In this study, I examined the embodied narratives of location of five Arab- American women. My findings mark a critical turning point in liberating formulaic representations of Arab-Americans by putting forth more complex and processual understandings of Arab-American performances as ongoing and embodied. Ultimately, I illuminated how positioning “feeling” as the primary analytical frame moves CIC scholarship toward more unscripted and emergent explorations of experience.
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Salma Tariq Shukri
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
221 p.
Recommended Citation
Shukri, Salma Tariq, "Reclaiming the Body: Understanding Arab–American Hybrid Experience Through Affective Attunement" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 601.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/601
Copyright date
2015
Discipline
Communication, Philosophy
Included in
International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Near and Middle Eastern Studies Commons