...Chapter 3 turns to the concept of liberal multiculturalism to look more closely at how race and ethnicity are constructed in relation to the sheikh-hero. Contrary to the original formula in E. M. Hull’s 1919 novel The Sheik, which at the end revealed the sheikh to be of European...

... an analysis of the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Arguing that contemporary U.S. imperialism in the war on terror operates by invoking a desire for security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, An Imperialist Love Story demonstrates love to be a salient lens...

..., freedom, and liberal multiculturalism as key technologies in the war on terror. It argues that subjects are encouraged to desire security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, which are framed as exceptional qualities of the U.S., while operating as imperialist technologies. 9 11 ambivalence Conrad...