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America in an Arab Mirror
Kamal . Ed(S): Abdel-Malek
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Description for America in an Arab Mirror
Hardback. Editor(s): Abdel-Malek, Kamal. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJ; DSB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312229634
SKU
V9780312229634
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About Kamal . Ed(S): Abdel-Malek
KAMAL ABDEL-MALEK Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta in Toronto, Canada. MOUNA EL KAHLA currently teaches Arabic at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Reviews for America in an Arab Mirror
"An instructive collection in a globalizing world." - Booklist