Abstracts
Résumé
Mis au défi de se construire une identité religieuse viable, dans un contexte nord-américain où non seulement ils sont minoritaires et souvent membres de communautés immigrantes, mais où ils sont aussi victimes des stéréotypes négatifs courants, dans le discours politique et médiatique dominant, les musulmans empruntent souvent le discours de l’authenticité musulmane. Ce discours invoque notamment la distinction entre traditions culturelles, interprétées comme contextuelles et limitées, et « véritable islam », vu comme universel et éternel. Avec ce discours en toile de fond, le présent article analyse la série télévisée, Little Mosque on the Prairie, créée par Zarqa Nawaz. Plutôt que de rejeter les expressions culturelles de l’islam, l’oeuvre de Nawaz semble suggérer qu’une identité musulmane authentique, en tant que construction culturelle, peut s’acclimater en Amérique du Nord et, cela, en dépit des contre-discours, musulmans et non musulmans, qui représentent l’identité musulmane comme sans commune mesure avec les contextes culturels occidentaux.
Abstract
Muslims, challenged to construct a viable religious identity in a North American context where they are not only a minority, and often members of immigrant communities, but also suffer from prevalent negative stereotypes in dominant political and media portrayals, often make use of discourses of Muslim authenticity. These discourses frequently invoke a distinction between cultural traditions, interpreted as contextual and limited, and “true Islam”, seen as universal and everlasting. Against the backdrop of these discourses, this article analyzes the television comedy series, Little Mosque on the Prairie, created by Zarqa Nawaz. Rather than rejecting cultural expressions of Islam, Nawaz’s work suggests that an authentic Muslim identity at home in North America is itself a cultural construct, this despite both Muslim and non-Muslim counter-discourses that portray Muslim identity as incommensurate with western cultural contexts.
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