Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics /

Using a mix of literary and social analysis, this book examines a broad range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how numerous socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel. Salaita argues that in the United States a variety of fictions about...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Salaita, Steven, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:American literature readings in the 21st century.
Temas:
American literature > Arab American authors > History and criticism.
Arab Americans in literature.
Authors, Arab > United States.
Novelists, Arab > United States.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine arabe > Histoire et critique.
Américains d'origine arabe dans la littérature.
Écrivains arabes > États-Unis.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > American > General.
American literature > Arab American authors
Arab Americans in literature
Authors, Arab
Novelists, Arab
United States
Computer network resources.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: searching diversities: observations of an Arab ex-student
  • Problems of inclusion: Arab American studies and ambiguous states of being
  • The internalization of the nation: the uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American fiction
  • Honesty lost: the strange circumstances of love, death, and Norma Khouri
  • Escaping inadequate spaces: anti-Arab racism and liberating fictions
  • Conclusion: Multicultural and monocultural disjunctions.

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