Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation /
Kyle Conway's textual analysis and in-depth research, including interviews from the show's creator, executive producers, writers, and CBC executives, reveals the many ways Muslims have and have not been integrated into North American television.
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Cultural spaces.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Muslims and Sitcoms in Post-9/11 North America; 1 Sitcoms, Cultural Translation, and the Paradox of Saleable Diversity; 2 Representation between the Particular and the Universal; 3 The Paradoxes of "Humanizing Muslims"; 4 Saleable Diversity and International Audiences; 5 Religion as Culture versus Religion as Belief; Conclusion: Identity and Difference in North American Sitcoms; Notes; References; Index.