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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784144203321

Autore

Salaita Steven <1975->

Titolo

Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics [[electronic resource] /] / by S. Salaita

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-281-36268-9

9786611362683

0-230-60337-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

813.0098927073

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

America - Literatures

Literature

Ethnology - Middle East 

Culture

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

North American Literature

World Literature

Middle Eastern Culture

Twentieth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.