The United States through Arab eyes : an anthology of writings (1876-1914)

The Resource The United States through Arab eyes : an anthology of writings (1876-1914)
Label
The United States through Arab eyes : an anthology of writings (1876-1914)
Title remainder
an anthology of writings (1876-1914)
Statement of responsibility
introduced, selected, and translated by Nabil Matar
Title variation
  • Anthology of writings, 1876-1914
  • U.S. through Arab eyes
Contributor
Editor
Translator
Writer of introduction
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • ara
  • eng
Summary
"The first Arab immigrants to New York or Alaska or San Francisco were 'small' men and women, preoccupied with eking a living at the same time as confronting the challenges of settling in a new country. They had to come to terms with new race communities such as Indians, Chinese and Blacks, the changing role of women, and the Americanisation of their identity. Their writings about these experiences--from travellers and emigrants, rich and poor, men and women--took the form of travelogues and newspaper essays, daily diaries and adventure narratives, autobiographies and histories, full-length books published in the Ottoman Press in Lebanon and journal articles in Arabic newspapers printed in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. Together they show the transnational perspective of immigrants as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time"--Back cover
Cataloging source
YDX
Index
index present
Language note
Translated from the Arabic
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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