This book captures the dialogues and conflicts which shape the geopolitical map of the Middle East navigating the historical entanglements and socio-cultural paradigms triggered by the power relations in the region. Engaging the socio-cultural landscape in the Middle East from the perspectives of American and Arabic writers this study intervenes in colonial discourses and narratives of political conflicts and ideological orientations breaking new ground in American and Arabic literatures and penetrating into the contemporary state of institutionalized corruption and moral stagnation integral...

Aiming to reach a state of reconciliation rather than conflict, this book explores areas of overlapping drama between East and West. Breaking new ground in modern world literature and cultural studies by critically investigating common areas of interest which link writers from three different locations, the book probes trans-cultural trajectories and narratives of hegemony rooted in contemporary Arabic, African and American literary production. Confronting totalitarian policies advocated by world-wide repressive agencies and intervening in discourses of Diaspora, exile...