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America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology

America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology

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Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $54.99

ISBN10: 0230620353
ISBN13: 9780230620353
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Sep 25 2011
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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.

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