STEVEN SALAITA is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech, USA, and currently serves as Executive Director of the Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc. His previous books include Anti-Arab Racism in the USA and The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan.

Introduction: The Searchings of an Arab ex-Student Problems of Inclusion: Arab American Studies and Inalterable States of Being The Internationalization of the Nation: The Uses of the Lebanese Civil War in Arab American Fiction Honesty Lost: The Strange Circumstances of Love, Death, and Norma Khouri Escaping Inadequate Spaces: Anti-Arab Racism and Liberating Fictions Conclusion: Multicultural and Monocultural Disjunctions

N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.