內容簡介: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.
作者簡介:KAMAL ABDEL-MALEK?Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta in Toronto, Canada.MOUNA EL KAHLA currently teaches Arabic at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
目錄: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