{"product_id":"morocco-bound-9780822336440","title":"Morocco Bound","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful meditation on the question of why the circulation of cultural representations matters…. Given its important critical interventions, \u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound\u003c\/i\u003e should be a required text for a broad range of readers and scholars in the fields of American studies, postcolonialism, comparative literature, and Middle Eastern Studies.” - \u003cb\u003eAli Behdad,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Comparative Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Throughout this book it is clear that Edwards views dialogue as a modest corrective to Orientalist tendencies, often pointing out moments when opportunities for exchange were missed. Edwards’s own work is consciously collaborative and dialogic; he acknowledges his debt to Moroccan colleagues. His own experiences in Morocco, the ground on which this book is built, constitutes yet another chapter in the American-Moroccan encounter at an historical moment when the need for dialogue and conversation across the gaping chasm separating the United States and the Arab world is as dire as ever.\" - \u003cb\u003eAllen Hibbard\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eComparative Literature Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not only does Edwards’s book propose a methodology that importantly indicates the material differences between text and context, but it also breaks new scholarly ground in presenting a new area of study for transnational American studies: the orientalist construction of the Maghreb. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound\u003c\/i\u003e represents a timely intervention into the epistemological and material violence of the present moment and promises to be a study that will be returned to long after the present conflict (hopefully) has passed.\" - \u003cb\u003eChristopher Breu\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound\u003c\/i\u003e is an exemplary work of postcolonial American studies scholarship, one acutely sensitive to the importance of the specificities of colonial and imperial relations in the Maghreb. Yet \u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound\u003c\/i\u003e is no predictable ideological study. Edwards constantly foregrounds the historical complexities of encounter in each text he analyzes while simultaneously presenting nuanced close readings. In the process, he challenges familiar theoretical paradigms and presents us with new possibilities.\" - \u003cb\u003eMalini Johar Schueller\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound \u003c\/i\u003eannounces a radical departure from contemporary debates on orientalism through an interesting deployment of the concept of circulation in its study of the U.S. encounter with North Africa and through an astute consideration of the ways that American texts translate the North African Arab and Berber other. With this book, postcolonialism, cultural studies, African studies, and American studies will be refreshed and can begin some of the most exciting debates anew.”—Taieb Belghazi, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco\u003cbr\u003e“By his commitment to working across languages, treating several disciplines and diverse cultural levels (official, mass, avant-garde), and by his disruptive practice of reading Arabic voices together with Anglophones, Brian Edwards has produced an exemplary performance of what American Studies must become in the twenty-first century.”—Jonathan Arac, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820–1860\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As literary studies in the United States founder between America globalizing and the globe Americanizing, Brian T. Edwards's brilliant analysis of how America becomes worldly for others is a model for future work. Here language-based close readings bring literary criticism and the study of cultural politics together as the author guides us with a sure hand from cold war ideology, through 'hippie orientalism' and postcoloniality, onto the threshold of the consequences of globalization seen in a new perspective.\"—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and insightful account of the multiple ways that Americans engaged Morocco from the 1940s to the 1970s. . . . [A] sophisticated and fascinating work of first-class scholarship that will be of great interest to scholars and students of history, cultural and literary studies, and area studies.” -- Melani McAlister * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling account both of the Maghreb as an important contact zone in the formation of the United States as a global power and of American orientalism as a formative component in American foreign relations. . . . [T]he power here lies in detailed cultural historiography, and some of the text’s most compelling moments reside in the connective tissue of Edwards’s historicist argumentation.\" -- Margaux Cowden * GLQ *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful meditation on the question of why the circulation of cultural representations matters…. Given its important critical interventions, \u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound\u003c\/i\u003e should be a required text for a broad range of readers and scholars in the fields of American studies, postcolonialism, comparative literature, and Middle Eastern Studies.” -- Ali Behdad * Comparative Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound\u003c\/i\u003e is an exemplary work of postcolonial American studies scholarship, one acutely sensitive to the importance of the specificities of colonial and imperial relations in the Maghreb. Yet \u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound\u003c\/i\u003e is no predictable ideological study. Edwards constantly foregrounds the historical complexities of encounter in each text he analyzes while simultaneously presenting nuanced close readings. In the process, he challenges familiar theoretical paradigms and presents us with new possibilities.\" -- Malini Johar Schueller * American Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Not only does Edwards’s book propose a methodology that importantly indicates the material differences between text and context, but it also breaks new scholarly ground in presenting a new area of study for transnational American studies: the orientalist construction of the Maghreb. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eMorocco Bound\u003c\/i\u003e represents a timely intervention into the epistemological and material violence of the present moment and promises to be a study that will be returned to long after the present conflict (hopefully) has passed.\" -- Christopher Breu * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East *\u003cbr\u003e\"Throughout this book it is clear that Edwards views dialogue as a modest corrective to Orientalist tendencies, often pointing out moments when opportunities for exchange were missed. Edwards’s own work is consciously collaborative and dialogic; he acknowledges his debt to Moroccan colleagues. His own experiences in Morocco, the ground on which this book is built, constitutes yet another chapter in the American-Moroccan encounter at an historical moment when the need for dialogue and conversation across the gaping chasm separating the United States and the Arab world is as dire as ever.\" -- Allen Hibbard * Comparative Literature Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Morocco Bound, 1942–1973 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Taking Casablanca \u003cbr\u003e 1. American Orientalism: Taking Casablanca 29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sheltering Screens: Paul Bowles and Foreign Relations 78\u003cbr\u003e II. Queer Tangier \u003cbr\u003e 3. Tangier(s): The Multiple Cold War Contexts of the International Zone 121\u003cbr\u003e 4. Disorienting the National Subject: Burroughs's Tangier, Hitchcock's Marrakech 158\u003cbr\u003e 5. Three Serious Writers Two Serious Authors: Jane Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, and the Erotics of Collaboration Politics of Translation 198\u003cbr\u003e III. Marrackech Express \u003cbr\u003e 6. Hippie Orientalism: The Interpretation of Countercultures 247\u003cbr\u003e Notes 303\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 335\u003cbr\u003e Index 351","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406039851351,"sku":"9780822336440","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822336440.jpg?v=1730494336","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/morocco-bound-9780822336440","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}