Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1 The Rise of Arab American Literature
2 The Gibran Phenomenon
3 The Emergence of Autobiography
4 The Retreat of Cultural Translation
5 Exilic Memoirs
6 Academic Itineraries
7 Postcolonial Translation
8 Muslim Immigrant Fiction
9 Queering Orientalism
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the Author

Waïl S. Hassan is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction, co-editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz, and translator of Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language.