Brian Edwards

Morocco Bound

Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336099
• ISBN-10: 082233609X
• Artikelnr.: 21121975

Autorenporträt

Brian T. Edwards

Inhaltsangabe

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