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

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