America in An Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature
Subtitle: An Anthology
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; St. Martin's Press
Published: July 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780312229634
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Travel writing; Travel; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; The Americas; African; Literary Criticism & Collections / Middle Eastern; Essays & Travelogues; Middle Eastern; 20th century; Arab Americans; Arabs; Attitudes; Biography; Description And Travel; History; United States
First sentence: MIKHAIL ASAD RUSTUM was born in Lebanon in the mid-nineteenth century and emigrated to the United States in the 1880s where he settled in Philadelphia.
Description: "This anthology presents travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the one hundred years spanning 1895-1995. 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 with and revise Arab preconceptions 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, Taken together, these well-written pieces constitute an important window into Arab-American relations."--BOOK JACKET.