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1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages) : illustrations |
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America and the long 19th century |
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America and the long 19th century.
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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 Allan 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. |
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Print version record. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Arabs in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Islam in literature.
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Arabs -- Race identity.
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National characteristics, American -- History -- 19th century.
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Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Islam dans la littérature.
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Arabes -- Identité ethnique.
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Arabes dans la littérature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Arabs -- Race identity
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American literature
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Arabs in literature
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Islam in literature
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National characteristics, American
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Literatur
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Nationalcharakter Motiv
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Araber Motiv
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Islam Motiv
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USA
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899
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| Genre/Form |
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 bk.) |
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081478951X (electronic bk.) |
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9780814723210 (electronic bk.) |
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0814723217 (electronic bk.) |
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9780814789506 |
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0814789501 |
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9780814745182 |
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0814745180 |
| Standard No. |
10.18574/9780814789513 doi |
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AU@ 000054188178 |
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DEBBG BV040816111 |
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DEBBG BV043071497 |
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DEBSZ 421411279 |
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NZ1 14831760 |
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