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"Celebrating Arabs": Tracing Legend and Rumor Labyrinths in Post-9/11 Detroit

"Celebrating Arabs": Tracing Legend and Rumor Labyrinths in Post-9/11 Detroit This article examines one instance of a widely spread rumor (incipient legend) circulated via e-mail in northwest Detroit that Arab employees at a Middle Eastern restaurant cheered when they saw television footage of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. It argues that rumor and legend scholars, especially those examining alternative communication paths including Internet transmission, should work to retain the complexity of performance-oriented studies in their comparative analyses. It takes "the middle road" in building a case for examining, whenever possible, the complex intertwining of localized and globalized "folkloric space" for readings that are richly textured and evocative of a variety of social conditions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American Folklore American Folklore Society

"Celebrating Arabs": Tracing Legend and Rumor Labyrinths in Post-9/11 Detroit

Journal of American Folklore , Volume 118 (468) – Feb 5, 2005

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American Folklore Society
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Copyright © 2005 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
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1535-1882
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Abstract

This article examines one instance of a widely spread rumor (incipient legend) circulated via e-mail in northwest Detroit that Arab employees at a Middle Eastern restaurant cheered when they saw television footage of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. It argues that rumor and legend scholars, especially those examining alternative communication paths including Internet transmission, should work to retain the complexity of performance-oriented studies in their comparative analyses. It takes "the middle road" in building a case for examining, whenever possible, the complex intertwining of localized and globalized "folkloric space" for readings that are richly textured and evocative of a variety of social conditions.

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Journal of American FolkloreAmerican Folklore Society

Published: Feb 5, 2005

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