The Emergence of American Occidentalism in Literature and Culture

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The Emergence of American Occidentalism in Literature and Culture is written by Muthanna Al-Janabi and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 104067870X (ISBN 10) and 9781040678701 (ISBN 13).

The book presents an innovative conceptualization of Western thought, casting the discourse of black and white intellectuals and politicians as a treatise on Occidentalism. It envisions American Occidentalism as an inner discourse where Critical Occidentalists interact textually and historically in response to the prevailing crosscurrents. To capture this narrativity, the first chapter establishes the book’s new terminology, rereads ancient Greek texts, and critiques the works of key anthropologists like James G. Carrier and Fernando Coronil, as well as cultural theorists such as Hassan Hanafi, Xiaomei Chen, and Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit. The other three chapters analyze the Occidentalist tendency in the discursive, official, and intellectual practices of the Early Republic, the twentieth century, and the twenty-first century. Ideal for scholars and individuals interested in postcolonial theory, (African) American literature, and political sciences, this book challenges readers to see the Occident not as a fixed entity, but as a dynamic, self-critical tradition.