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9%OFFBrian T. Edwards - Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express - 9780822336440 - V9780822336440
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Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express

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Description for Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express Paperback. An examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973 Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 376 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara—for their understanding of “the Arab.” In Morocco Bound, Brian T. Edwards examines American representations of the Maghreb during three pivotal decades—from 1942, when the United States entered the North African campaign of World War II, through 1973. He reveals how American film and literary, historical, journalistic, and anthropological accounts of the region imagined the role of the United States in a world it seemed to dominate at the same time that they displaced domestic social concerns—particularly about ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
New Americanists
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822336440
SKU
V9780822336440
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About Brian T. Edwards
Brian T. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University.

Reviews for Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express
“Morocco Bound is a powerful meditation on the question of why the circulation of cultural representations matters…. Given its important critical interventions, Morocco Bound should be a required text for a broad range of readers and scholars in the fields of American studies, postcolonialism, comparative literature, and Middle Eastern Studies.” - Ali Behdad, Comparative Literature "Throughout this book it is ... Read more

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