(Re)thinking Orientalism

Rachel Bailey Jones (PhD in Curriculum and Teaching from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) is Assistant Professor of Social & Psychological Foundations of Education at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. She also serves as the Program Director for the program in Women and Gender Studies. She taught art at the elementary level in North Carolina. Her first book is entitled Postcolonial Representations of Women: Critical Issues for Education (2011).

Contents: Introduction: Bringing Theory to Practice – Situating the Discourse: Orientalism and Islamophobia – Visualizing Difference, Decoding Representation – Post-September 11th and the Visual Regime – Muslims in the American Media: The Muslims I Know, All-American Muslim, and Graphic Representations – From the Inside/Outside: Persepolis, Nylon Road, and A Game for Swallows – Graphic Narratives from Inside the Iranian, Egyptian, and Tunisian Protests: The Tunisian Awakening, Rise, Zahra’s Paradise, and Qahera – Self-Reflexive Outsiders: The Waiting Room, The Photographer, and Palestine – Habibi: The Outsider Looking In.

«Though primarily written for college faculty teaching undergraduate students, (Re)Thinking Orientalism has plenty to offer high school teachers as well. If you are one of the many who feel inadequately equipped to teach about comics, let alone discuss them in a classroom, this book is a very clearheaded, easy to follow guide that will help any novice understand how to introduce comics within a sophisticated and academically rigorous framework.»
(Antonio López, Journal of Media Literacy Education 7(1)