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Can I read America in an Arab mirror : images of America in Arabic travel literature, 1668 to 9 11 and beyond on EtoBox?
America in an Arab mirror : images of America in Arabic travel literature, 1668 to 9 11 and beyond by Kamal Abdel-Malek and Mouna El Kahla is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is America in an Arab mirror : images of America in Arabic travel literature, 1668 to 9 11 and beyond 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, 1668 to 9 11 and beyond?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kamal Abdel-Malek and Mouna El Kahla
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312229634
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Travel
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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