| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
America and the long 19th century
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America and the long 19th century.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Guest Figures -- The Barbarous Voice of Democracy -- Pentimento Geographies -- Poe's Arabesque -- American Moors and the Barbaresque -- Arab Masquerade : Mahjar Identity Politics and Trans-nationalism -- Afterword: Haunted Houses. |
| Summary |
American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Arabs in literature.
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Arabs in literature. |
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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Islam in literature.
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Islam in literature. |
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Arabs -- Race identity.
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Arabs -- Race identity. |
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Arabs. |
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National characteristics, American -- History -- 19th century.
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National characteristics, American. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Berman, Jacob Rama. American arabesque. New York : New York University Press, ©2012 9780814789506 (DLC) 2011043495 (OCoLC)762371447 |
| ISBN |
9780814789513 electronic book |
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081478951X electronic book |
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9780814723210 electronic book |
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0814723217 electronic book |
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9780814789506 |
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0814789501 |
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9780814745182 |
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0814745180 |
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