{"product_id":"domestications-hosam-mohamed-aboul-ela-9780810137509","title":"Domestications: American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens Volume 31","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDomestications\u003c\/i\u003e traces a genealogy of American global engagement with the Global South since World War II. Hosam Aboul-Ela reads American writers contrapuntally against intellectuals from the Global South in their common--yet ideologically divergent--concerns with hegemony, world domination, and uneven development. Using Edward Said's \u003ci\u003eCulture and Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e as a model, Aboul-Ela explores the nature of U.S. imperialism's relationship to literary culture through an exploration of five key terms from the postcolonial bibliography: \u003ci\u003enovel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eidea\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eperspective\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003egender\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003espace\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Within this framework the book examines juxtapositions including that of Paul Bowles's Morocco with North African intellectuals' critique of Orientalism, the global treatment of Vietnamese liberation movements with the American narrative of personal trauma in the novels of Tim O'Brien and Hollywood film, and the war on terror's philosophical idealism with Korean and post-Arab nationalist materialist archival fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDomestications\u003c\/i\u003e departs from other recent studies of world literature in its emphases not only on U.S. imperialism but also on intellectuals working in the Global South and writing in languages other than English and French. Although rooted in comparative literature, its readings address issues of key concern to scholars in American studies, postcolonial studies, literary theory, and Middle Eastern studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081013750X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810137509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2019","brand":"Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517458362623,"sku":"9780810137509","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0bf188be-287f-43c3-b41a-81d0c3937059.jpg?v=1778731940","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/domestications-hosam-mohamed-aboul-ela-9780810137509","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}