Format:
Online-Ressource (287 p)
ISBN:
9780814789506
Series Statement:
America and the Long 19th Century
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Preface: Roadside Attraction; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Guest Figures; 1 The Barbarous Voice of Democracy; 2 Pentimento Geographies; 3 Poe's Taste for the Arabesque; 4 American Moors and the Barbaresque; 5 Arab Masquerade: Mahjar Identity Politics and Transnationalism; Afterword: Haunted Houses; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814723210
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814789506
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe American Arabesque : Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814789506.001.0001
