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America in an Arab mirror : images of America in Arabic travel literature : an anthology, 1895-1995 by Kamal Abdel-Malek (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is America in an Arab mirror : images of America in Arabic travel literature : an anthology, 1895-1995 about?

This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently engage and revise Arab pre-conceptions of Americans and the West. The country figures as everything from the unchanging Other, the very antithesis of the Arab self, to the seductive female, to the Other who is both praiseworthy and reprehensible. Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2011

Who reads America in an Arab mirror : images of America in Arabic travel literature : an anthology, 1895-1995?

Author

Kamal Abdel-Malek (eds.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230620353

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Memoir, Literary Criticism