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Book Review

Comparative/World

Brian T. Edwards. Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express. (New Americanists.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 366. $23.95.
Brian T. Edwards applies the lessons of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to an arena whose time has come. He scrutinizes American popular views of the Maghreb, mainly Morocco, between the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942 and the hippie onslaught ending around 1975. His book, whose lovely title originated, appropriately enough, in a song from a Bob Hope "road" movie, critiques the insularity of Americans and also the field of American Studies, asking the reader to "rethink the role of American culture in the world and imagine alternative possibilities for an American encounter with the world" (p. 11). Because superpower status thrust on Americans the challenge to become worldly in unprecedented ways, it is fitting that this book appears in a series called "New Americanists."	1
In keeping with his commitment to global dialogue, Edwards spent considerable time in Morocco; he studied the local dialect of Arabic and discussed the book's content with Moroccan colleagues. It is easy to endorse his collaborative spirit and to join in lamenting what he calls the American heritage of indifference toward the political travails of Moroccans, especially those who protested against the often brutal regime of King Hassan II. Edwards reworked his manuscript after September 11, 2001, because he felt urgently the need to locate Americans and America in a new worldly paradigm.	. . .

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