American Studies Encounters the Middle East
American Studies Encounters the Middle East
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Abstract
In American Studies, attention is shifting to American engagements with the Middle East, especially in the aftermath of war in Iraq and broad American economic influence. As protest against economic inequality, social discrimination, and political repression has risen around the world, recent Arab uprisings have attracted special focus. In this volume, Alex Lubin and Marwan Kraidy curate a new collection of essays that offer a reappraisal of the field of American Studies at the end of the “American Century.” The goal of this volume is not merely to continue the ongoing process of internationalizing American studies approaches by including non-U.S. scholars, but rather to explore how cultural forms circulate transnationally and are shaped by, and contribute to, international geopolitical contexts. With an introduction by the editors, these essays focus on the cultural politics of the U.S. engagement with the Middle East and North Africa and the geopolitics of American involvement with the uprisings of the Arab Spring, making a crucial intervention in the growing subfield of transnational American Studies. Featuring a diverse list of contributors from the United States, the Arab world, and beyond, America Studies Encounters the Middle East analyzes Arab-American relations by looking at the War on Terror, pop culture, and the influence of the American hegemony in a time of revolution.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: American Studies Encounters the Middle East
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Part I The Arab–U.S. Encounter: Entangled Histories and Contemporary Flows
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Diabolical Enterprises and Abominable Superstitions: Islam and the Conceptualization of Finance in Early American Literature
Adam John Waterman
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Salim the Algerine: The Muslim Who Strayed into Colonial Virginia
Judith E. Tucker
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“Race” and “Blackness” in Moroccan Rap: Voicing Local Experiences of Marginality
Cristina Moreno Almeida
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Call and Response, Radical Belonging, and Arabic Hip-Hop in “the West”
Rayya El Zein
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The Reception of U.S. Discourse on the Egyptian Revolution: Between the Popular and the Official
Mounira Soliman
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Arab Spring, American Autumn
Brian T. Edwards
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Diabolical Enterprises and Abominable Superstitions: Islam and the Conceptualization of Finance in Early American Literature
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Part II Infrastructures of Control: From Mythmaking to Drone Warfare
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The Uses of Modernization Theory: American Foreign Policy and Mythmaking in the Arab World
Waleed Hazbun
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Traveling Law: Targeted Killing, Lawfare, and the Deconstruction of the Battlefield
Craig Jones
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Drone Executions, Urban Surveillance, and the Imperial Gaze
Ashley Dawson
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Technology’s Borders: The United States, Palestine, and Egypt’s Digital Connections
Helga Tawil-Souri
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The Counterrevolutionary Year: The Arab Spring, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Osamah Khalil
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The Uses of Modernization Theory: American Foreign Policy and Mythmaking in the Arab World
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End Matter
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