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Edwards, Brian. "Morocco Bound: U.S. Representations of North Africa, 1920-1998," American Studies, Yale University, September 1998.
This study investigates portrayals of North African culture, peoples, and landscapes in twentieth-century U.S. culture. Negotiating both North African and French colonial populations, individual Americans in North Africa reflected on the meanings of their own nation and its imperialist tendencies. The work interrogates the relationship of these authors’ interpretations of U.S. nationality to their often fantastical representations of the Maghreb. Discussing fiction, film, travelogues, journalism, anthropology, and amusement parks, the work offers close readings of work by Edith Wharton, A.J. Liebling, Ernie Pyle, Paul Bowles, Clifford Geertz, and Mohammed Mrabet, plus Hollywood films and Disney. “Morocco Bound” focuses on the ways in which such authors translated their experience of “foreignness” into a recognizable American dialect and demonstrates how moments of slippage refigure simpler understandings of “Americanness.”
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