Morocco Bound - Disorienting America s Maghreb, From Casablanca to Marrakech Express

Informationen zum Autor Brian T. Edwards is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. Klappentext An examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973. Zusammenfassung An examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973 Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Morocco Bound, 1942–1973 1 Part I: Taking Casablanca 1. American Orientalism: Taking Casablanca 29 2. Sheltering Screens: Paul Bowles and Foreign Relations 78 II. Queer Tangier 3. Tangier(s): The Multiple Cold War Contexts of the International Zone 121 4. Disorienting the National Subject: Burroughs's Tangier, Hitchcock's Marrakech 158 5. Three Serious Writers Two Serious Authors: Jane Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, and the Erotics of Collaboration Politics of Translation 198 III. Marrackech Express 6. Hippie Orientalism: The Interpretation of Countercultures 247 Notes 303 Works Cited 335 Index 351

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• Authors: Brian T. Edwards, Edwards, Brian Edwards, Brian T. Edwards
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2005
• EAN: 9780822336099
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3609-9
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)