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Literature --- Deserts in literature --- History and criticism --- Deserts in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature - History and criticism

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Deserts --- Deserts in literature --- Deserts in art --- Déserts --- Déserts dans la littérature --- Déserts dans l'art --- Religious aspects --- Aspect religieux

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This book focuses on the complex relationships between inheritance, work, and desert in literature. It shows how, from its manifestation in the trope of material inheritance and legacy in Victorian fiction, "inheritance" gradually took on additional, more modern meanings in Joseph Conrad's fiction on work and self-making. In effect, the emphasis on inheritance as referring to social rank and wealth acquired through birth shifted to a focus on talent, ability, and merit, often expressed through work. The book explores how Conrad's fiction engaged with these changing modes of inheritance and work, and the resulting claims of desert they led to. Uniquely, it argues that Conrad's fiction critiques claims of desert arising from both work and inheritance, while also vividly portraying the emotional costs and existential angst that these beliefs in desert entailed. The argument speaks to and illuminates today's debates on moral desert arising from work and inheritance, in particular from meritocratic ideals. Its new approach to Conrad's works will appeal to students and scholars of Conrad and literary modernism, as well as a wider audience interested in philosophical and social debates on desert deriving from inheritance and work.

Philosophy --- General ethics --- Sociology of work --- Industrial economics --- Civil engineering. Building industry --- Literature --- sociologie --- ethiek --- filosofie --- industrie --- literatuur --- arbeid --- Deserts in literature. --- Inheritance and succession in literature. --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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.

Romance fiction, American --- Erotic stories, American --- Heroes in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Deserts in literature. --- East and West in literature. --- Social values in literature. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- American erotic stories --- American fiction --- American romance fiction --- Love stories, American --- History and criticism. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance. --- Desert romances. --- Sheikh romances.

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Deserts in literature. --- Inheritance and succession in literature. --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph,