Domestications

American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8101-3749-3
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: FlashPoints

Domestications traces a genealogy of American global engagement with the Global South since World War II. Hosam Mohamed 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 Culture and Imperialism 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: novel, idea, perspective, gender, and space.

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.

Domestications 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.

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• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela is an associate professor of literature at University of Houston and the author of Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegui Tradition.