The Emergence of American Occidentalism in Literature and Culture: The Disguised Identity

This book deciphers its lurking war of ideas-American Occidentalism-where black and white figures wrestle with American identity. Spanning from ancient Greece to the present, it scrutinizes a contested legacy of power, existence, and self-reinvention.

Muthanna Al-Janabi is an Iraqi scholar and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, specializing in Occidentalism, (post)colonialism, neo-Orientalism, cultural dialogues, (African) American literature, and representations of violence. He earned his BA and MA from the University of Baghdad before completing his PhD at Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany. Through his published articles, Al-Janabi examines shifting global narrativity and its impact on contemporary thought.