Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics
By: Steven Salaita.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: American literature readings in the 21st century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781403976208
Subjects: American literature -- Arab American authors -- History and criticism; Arab Americans in literature; Authors, Arab -- United States; Novelists, Arab -- United States
Description: "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 the Arab American novel. Salaita argues that in the United States a variety of fictions about Arab 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 complex than 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 Arab American Studies."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : searching diversities : observations of an Arab ex-student; title: Problems in inclusion : Arab American studies and ambiguous states of being; title: The internalization of the nation : the uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American fiction; title: Honesty lost : the strange circumstances of love, death, and Norma Khouri; title: Escaping inadequate spaces : anti-Arab racism and liberating fictions; title: Conclusion : Multicultural and monocultural disjunctions.