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An Imperialist Love Story - Desert Romances and the War on Terror (Hardcover)
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An Imperialist Love Story - Desert Romances and the War on Terror (Hardcover)
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A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of
mass-market romance novels, aptly called "desert romances."
Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince
or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years
since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen
in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab
masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the
cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the
broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist
representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining
close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums,
and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments
in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy
and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security,
freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role
that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism.
Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An
Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war
on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for
understanding how it works, and how it perseveres.
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