America in an Arab mirror: images of America in Arabic travel literature, 1668 to 9/11 and beyond

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 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. KAMAL ABDEL-MALEK is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta in Toronto, Canada. INDICE: PART I: AMERICA IN THE EYES OF A NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARAB - A Stranger in the West: The Trip of Mikhail Asad Rustum to America, 1885-1894; 'M.A.Rustum - 'PART II: THE MAKING OF AN IMAGE: AMERICA AS THE UNCHANGED OTHER, AMERICA AS THE SEDUCTIVE FEMALE - The America I Have Seen; 'S.Qutb' - An American Immigrant; Ahmad Mustafa - A Love Tour; 'M.Awad' - New York 80; 'Y.Idris' - PART III: AMERICA: THE DREAM AND THE REALITY - America in the Eyes of an Easterner, Or Eight Years in the U.S.; 'P.K.Hitti' - Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual; 'H.Sharabi - 'Land of Magic; 'S.Jabri' - My Days in America;' Z.N.Mahmud' - America [Top Secret]; 'A.Haridi - 'The Washington Memoirs; 'Y.al-Hasan' - PART IV: AMERICA IN THE EYES OF ARAB WOMEN TRAVELERS - America and I; 'J.Sidqi' - An Egyptian Girl in America;' K.Kamal - 'The Trip: The Days of an Egyptian Female Student in America; 'R.Ashur' - America's Other Face; 'L.A.Zayd' - America.. The Way It Is; 'H.Sarhan' - PART V: SATIRICAL VIEWS ON AMERICA - Cheerful America of the Past;' M.Amin' - My Story with Ivana Trump; 'A.Salim - 'America, You Cheeky Devil; 'M.al-Saadani' - The Sabeel; 'K.Abdel-Malek' - -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-62035-3
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 20/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés