Bücher von Hassen Zriba

The intricate and complex relations between language and identity have been the focus of many academic researchers in virtually all fields of the humanities. Many narratives have been produced in relation to this issue. The English Department at the Higher Institute of Applied Studies in Humanities at the University of Gafsa in Tunisia organized a study day on the topic of ¿Language and Identity¿. Different scholars from different universities and disciplines shed light on some tricky aspects of the two concepts. They tackled them from linguistic, literary and cultural perspectives and produced interesting contributions. Articles treated, among other issues, the problematic relationships between the articulations of identity in language and vice versa. Language and identity are related to discursive topics like culture, race, virtual spaces, political discourses, universal linguistics and language teaching. Bringing together contributions from different disciplines and theoretical traditions, this collection aims both to illuminate and to move forward debates about ¿language and identity' and their meaning in contemporary social formations and cultural contexts.

The book traces the crucial aspects of the relationship between media and the concept of representation. The possible links between the two concepts developed into the emergence of what came to be called media representation theory. Yet, in this book, I work on different perspectives which trace how British Muslim communities are represented in British media. I focus on such representations in new media, notably digital web-based media rather than classical hard and electronic media. Interestingly, this book broaches the issues of Muslim identity as being represented by mainstream media and how it is processed and consumed by media multiple audiences as well. Within the theoretical tradition of audience or reception theory, it is argued that passive consumptions of hegemonic representations of Islam and Muslims are no longer possible with the advent of what came to be called Media Studies 2 or Web 2.0 Studies.

Edited by rising Tunisian literary scholar Hassen Zriba, this volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary essays arguing that the concept of ""erasure"" is an essential analytical tool/mode of thought in shaping conceptualizations of change and continuity in subjects of human knowledge.