Domestications : American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens / Hosam Aboul-Ela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aboul-Ela, Hosam M., author.

Series:

FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)

FlashPoints

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--History--21st century.

Imperialism.

Imperialism--History--20th century.

World politics in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Domestications traces a genealogy of American global engagement with the Global South since World War II.Hosam Aboul-Ela reads American writers contrapuntally against intellectuals from the Global South in their common--yet ideologically divergent--concerns with hegemony, world domination, and uneven development.

Contents:

Introduction: Living with U.S. imperialism

(Novel). The specter of normativity : Paul Bowles and the American "Third World" novel

(Idea). Other Moroccos : representation, historicism, and the North African lens

(Perspective). Domestication and eastern Asia : America imagines the world

(Gender). Normative feminism : on saving women in the postdevelopment world

(Space). In spite of the land : partitions, terror wars, and the new idealism

Conclusion: The end of "foreign".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780810137516

0810137518

OCLC:

1044920809