| Domestications: American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens Subjects: Literature Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; World politics in literature; Imperialism -- History -- 20th century; Imper; Domestications traces a genealogy of American global engagement with the Global South since World War II. Hosam 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 . HOSAM ABOUL-ELA is an associate professor of literature at University of Houston and the author of Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegui Tradition . |