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The Turn to Precarity in Twenty-First Century Fiction
JAGO MORRISON                                                                                                         10

Leisure Traveling for 21st Century Americans: Mass Tourism as a Cultural Trap
OVIDIU ANICULĂESE                                                                                                30

The Topos of the Mound in Samuel Beckett’s Writing
REZA HABIBI                                                                                                                    41

The Camouflage of the Sacred in the Short Fiction of Hemingway
ALI ZAID                                                                                                                              61

Postcolonial Myth in Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet
ROXANA ELENA DONCU                                                                                        79

Contents   Page In Memoriam Doris Lessing 5 CHARLOTTE BEYER In Theory 9 The Turn to Precarity in Twenty-First Century Fiction 10 JAGO MORRISON Leisure Traveling for 21st Century Americans: Mass Tourism as a Cultural Trap 30 OVIDIU ANICULĂESE In Practice 39 The Topos of the Mound in Samuel Beckett’s Writing 40 REZA HABIBI The Camouflage of the Sacred in the Short Fiction of Hemingway 60 ALI ZAIDI Postcolonial Myth in Salman Rushdie’s The Ground beneath Her Feet 78 ROXANA ELENA DONCU In Labs 95 The Bridge 96 ADRIAN MATHEWS We’re Gonna Have A Party Tonight 100 GILL KINGSLAND Book Reviews 120 Thomas S. Kidd, American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism 121 ADRIANA NEAGU Cosana Nicolae, Canon, canonic. Mutaţii valorice în literatura americană contemporană 125 MIHAELA MUDURE Notes on Contributors 130 Call for Submissions, ABC 22, special issue: Faces of Globality: American Studies and the Romanian Diaspora 133 Call for Membership 137

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