The book tackles the idea of mandomination and woman emancipation in the writings of the contemporary Afro- American writer Alice Walker in three main novels which are The Color Purple, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, and Meridian...She focuses on the sufferings of women in the male world, and their attempts to achieve freedom and emancipation in addition to shedding light on the origin and development of the English novel and its main writers in the different ages.

The book deals with the topic of comparative literature between the east and the west, comparing the similarities and differences between two great writers in the Arabic and the American literature who are Tawfiq Al-Hakim and Jack London, focusing on the mutual themes they dealt with such as the theme of escape into imagination, traveling, love, philosophy in life and the technique of using animal figures in their writings and giving them the ability to think and decide like humans to express certain ideas. It also focuses on the effect of Arabic literature on the Western culture specially...