![]() | Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader''s Guide Subjects: American fiction -- Arab American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Arab Americans in literature; Arabs in literature; Within the spectrum of American literary traditions, Arab American literature is relatively new. Writing produced by Americans of Arab origin is mainly a product of the twentieth century and only started to flourish in the past thirty years. While this young but thriving literature varies widely in content and style, it emerges from a common community and within a specific historical, political, and cultural context. In Modern Arab American Fiction , Salaita maps out the landscape of this genre as he details rather than defines the last century of Arab American fiction. Steven Salaita is associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Anti-Arab Racism in the USA , The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought , and The Holy Land in Transit . |
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