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Author Edwards, Brian T., 1968- author.

Title Morocco bound : disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express / Brian T. Edwards
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 366 pages) : illustrations
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction: Morocco bound, 1942-1973 -- Taking Casablanca -- American orientalism: taking Casablanca -- Sheltering screens: Paul Bowles and foreign relations -- Queer Tangier -- Tangier(s): the multiple cold war contexts of the international zone -- Disorienting the national subject: Burroughs's Tangier, Hitchcock's Marrakech -- Three serious writers, two serious authors: Jane Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, and the erotics of collaboration politics of translation -- Marrakech Express -- Hippie orientalism: the interpretation of countercultures
Summary An examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-349) and index
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Subject Historiography -- Morocco
Orientalism -- United States
Asianists -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Asianists
Historiography
Orientalism
Morocco
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005011389
ISBN 9780822387121
0822387123
1283022036
9781283022033
9786613022035
6613022039