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Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics[electronic resource] /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	810.9
書名/作者:	Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics/ Steven Salaita.
作者:	Salaita, Steven,
出版者:	New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007
面頁冊數:	x, 196 p.
叢書名:	American literature readings in the 21st century
標題:	American literature - Arab American authors
標題:	Arab Americans in literature.
標題:	Authors, Arab - United States.
標題:	Novelists, Arab - United States.
標題:	Arab Americans - Social conditions.
標題:	Arab Americans - Ethnic identity.
ISBN:	9780230603370
ISBN:	0230603378
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.
內容註:	Introduction: The Searchings of an Arab ex-Student * Problems of Inclusion: Arab American Studies and Inalterable States of Being * The Internationalization of the Nation: The Uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American Fiction * Honesty Lost: The Strange Circumstances of Love, Death, andNorma Khouri * Escaping Inadequate Spaces: Anti-Arab Racism and Liberating Fictions * Conclusion: Multicultural and Monocultural Disjunctions.
摘要、提要註:	Using a mix of literary and social analysis, this book examines a broad range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how numerous socio-political phenomena have affected the development of theArab American novel. Salaita argues that in the United States a variety of fictionsabout Arabs and Islam circulate frequently in both popular and academic cultures. He endeavors in turn to highlight the diversities inscribed in the Arab American community that render it more complexthan generally is acknowledged in public discussion, an endeavor undertaken through critique of a cross-section of modern Arab American novelists, including Etel Adnan, Rabih Alameddine, Joseph Geha,and Laila Halaby. Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics is the first original book of Arab American literary criticism and offers reflections on the viability of developing an ArabAmerican Studies.
電子資源:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)

Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics[electronic resource] /
Salaita, Steven,1975-

Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics[electronic resource] /Steven Salaita. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007 - x, 196 p. - American literature readings in the 21st century.

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

Introduction: The Searchings of an Arab ex-Student * Problems of Inclusion: Arab American Studies and Inalterable States of Being * The Internationalization of the Nation: The Uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American Fiction * Honesty Lost: The Strange Circumstances of Love, Death, andNorma Khouri * Escaping Inadequate Spaces: Anti-Arab Racism and Liberating Fictions * Conclusion: Multicultural and Monocultural Disjunctions.

Using a mix of literary and social analysis, this book examines a broad range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how numerous socio-political phenomena have affected the development of theArab American novel. Salaita argues that in the United States a variety of fictionsabout Arabs and Islam circulate frequently in both popular and academic cultures. He endeavors in turn to highlight the diversities inscribed in the Arab American community that render it more complexthan generally is acknowledged in public discussion, an endeavor undertaken through critique of a cross-section of modern Arab American novelists, including Etel Adnan, Rabih Alameddine, Joseph Geha,and Laila Halaby. Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics is the first original book of Arab American literary criticism and offers reflections on the viability of developing an ArabAmerican Studies.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230603370

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230603370doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

370733
American literature
--Arab American authorsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

336502
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS508.A67 / S25 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9

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