The sociopolitical realities in the Arab World and their relationship

with the United States require that Arab professors of American literature

at Arab Universities revise their syllabi and textbooks so that they do not

serve the American hegemony on the Arab World. The researcher calls

for preparing an anthology of American literature that responds to the

national aspirations of Arab students without compromising quality or

the inclusiveness of the American canon. The anthology that the

researcher envisions is that which would include the giants of American

literature along with a significant representation of ethnicity and gender;

it would introduce American literature to students in an authentic and

critical manner that revises the standing canon in favor of reconstructing

a canon that is more relevant to Arab students in Arab universities and

that prepares them to be citizens of the world.