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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salaita, Steven, 1975-
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
American literature > Arab American authors > History and criticism.
Arab Americans in literature.
Authors, Arab > United States.
Novelists, Arab > United States.
Arab Americans > Social conditions.
Arab Americans > Ethnic identity.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2007 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: searching diversities: observations of an Arab ex-student
  • Problems of inclusion: Arab American studies and ambiguous states of being
  • The internalization of the nation: the uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American fiction
  • Honesty lost: the strange circumstances of love, death, and Norma Khouri
  • Escaping inadequate spaces: anti-Arab racism and liberating fictions
  • Conclusion: Multicultural and monocultural disjunctions.