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American Arabesque

Autor Jacob Rama Berman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iun 2012
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814745182
ISBN-10: 0814745180
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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"American Arabesque is daringly ambitious. As a work of scholarship, it ventures an extraordinary range of reference, involving old and new works in English and Arabic. As a challenge to think differently about the United States in a larger world, it ventures to name its perspective ‘dirty cosmopolitanism’. It makes good on both these risks.” Jonathan Arac, author of Impure Worlds

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Examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture