America in An Arab Mirror

America in An Arab Mirror
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 149
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ISBN-10 : 9780230120587
ISBN-13 : 023012058X
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Book Synopsis America in An Arab Mirror by : K. Abdel-Malek

Download or read book America in An Arab Mirror written by K. Abdel-Malek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. 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 and revise Arab pre-conceptions 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.


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