Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics / by S. Salaita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salaita, Steven, 1975-

Series:

American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, 2634-5803

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

America--Literatures.

America.

Ethnology--Middle East.

Ethnology.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

North American Literature.

World Literature.

Middle Eastern Culture.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Local Subjects:

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

North American Literature.

World Literature.

Middle Eastern Culture.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Searching Diversities: Observations of an Arab Ex-Student; 1 Problems of Inclusion: Arab American Studies and Ambiguous States of Being; 2 The Internationalization of the Nation: The Uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American Fiction; 3 Honesty Lost: The Strange Circumstances of Love, Death, and Norma Khouri; 4 Escaping Inadequate Spaces: Anti-Arab Racism and Liberating Fictions; Conclusion: Multicultural and Monocultural Disjunctions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.

ISBN:

9786611362683

9781281362681

1281362689

9780230603370

0230603378

OCLC:

475228802